[TriLUG] Re: Noise

[Andrew C. Oliver]

Personally, I think all of the distributions continue to suck.

Tanner Lovelace wrote:

>On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 18:20, Jeremy P wrote:
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>>On 26 Jul 2002, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 15:58, John F Davis wrote:
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>>>>Hello
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>>>>Mandrake is your problem.  Get something stable like Debian.
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>>>Actually, I would say people who have reactions like this are
>>>the problem.  If you don't understand something, as you *obviously*
>>>don't with mandrake, don't criticize it.
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>>Hmm.  a distro war!  Good way to liven up a quiet list.  :-)
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>>Actually, it does appear that this thread is named 
>>appropriately...noise! 
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>Jeremy,
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>Actually, if you look closely, I was not actually advocating
>one distribution over the other.  I realize different people
>like different distributions.  That's perfectly fine.  I was,
>however, objecting to the knee jerk reaction of someone 
>automatically assuming the distribution was at fault.  It
>didn't help towards solving the person's problem (just like
>the ensuing flamefest didn't either).  The person who originally
>posted had already chosen a distribution and only needed
>help with a specific problem.
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>Looking back over the thread, if I could take back anything
>at all, I would probably have not changed the subject to be
>"Debian Bigot".  I thought that John was learned enough to
>realize that my use of the word had nothing to do with
>"racism".  Instead, I was using the actual dictionary definition
>of the word: "a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her
>own opinions and prejudices."  Unfortunately, it seems John
>immediately assumed I was calling him a racist (as he
>mentioned on #trilug).  For the record: I was not, and I have
>never, ever, ever called John Davis, or for that matter, anyone
>on the list a racist.  Let's kill that one right now.  I do,
>however, continue to believe that John feels a certain animosity
>towards non debian distributions.  If he wants to feel that
>way, that's perfectly fine.  Just as long as he doesn't try to 
>impose his feelings on everyone else (note that persuasion is
>something completely different).  In addition, John, your comments
>to Tom Callaway were completely out of line.  I believe you
>owe him an apology (however, whether you actually give him one is your
>own business).
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>To those of you who've had to endure this thread, I'll go ahead
>and apologize.  It was my response that started the whole thing.
>Hopefully, in the future, we can all be a little more tolerant.
>
>Tanner
>P.S. Someone mentioned that, for those of us on the SC, it should
>be considered that, by default, we're posting for ourselves and not
>for the SC.  I wish that were true, but we've had enough
>misunderstandings in the past that it's just much easier to reiterate
>it every time.  I AM NOT posting as a member of the SC, but 
>rather just as myself.
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