[TriLUG] A bit of Linux motivational humor . . .

[James Olin Oden]

What is this BSD you speak...why that's just devilish speak (-;
...james

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Matthew Pusateri
<mpusateri at wickedtrails.com> wrote:
> Next someone will be saying BSD is dead :)
>
> On Sep 11, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Maarten Lippmann wrote:
>
>> Indeed, Ubuntu does not deserve the level of opprobrium it is
>> receiving from certain parts of the linux community.
>> However it doesn't deserver the level of fanboi zealot defensiveness
>> it is getting from other parts of the community either.
>> The post was making fun of the all most popular distrubutions, and the
>> posts were funny as there is some truth in all of them. (even the one
>> regarding Ubuntu, don't be offended Douglas).
>> We just got 3 posts defending ubuntu and noone else feels the need to
>> defend their favorite distro, though I bet there's some trilug fans
>> out there for each one of the distros mocked.
>> I'm a debian fan myself, and am quite arrogant about that; the picture
>> is right on.
>>
>> Ubuntu doesn't need any more defense than the other distro's, they all
>> suck or rock for different reasons from different perspectives.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I've got to say I know more people that use Ubuntu than any other
>>> distribution *as a desktop* Linux system.  The upgrade cycles are
>>> easy and
>>> the support is well documented.  I haven't been running Linux as a
>>> desktop
>>> for quite some time but the last time I booted a live CD of Ubuntu
>>> I was
>>> quite impressed.  The uber-geeks can, and still do, roll their own
>>> distributions and for everyone else inbetween there is 1000
>>> varieties of
>>> Linux to choose from.  It's all good.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Kevin Hunter
>>> <hunteke at earlham.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> At 9:05pm -0400 on Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Douglas Whitfield wrote:
>>>>> I don't see why Ubuntu helping people is a problem?  Ubuntu gets
>>>>> a lot of
>>>>> flack for being user friendly.  I'm happy for people to jab at
>>>>> Ubuntu for
>>>>> not being as free as possible, but seriously, unless stuff is easy,
>>>> people
>>>>> aren't going to use it.  The rest, however, I found funny.
>>>>
>>>> I have forgotten in what circle this came to me, but I (re)post
>>>> here:
>>>>
>>>> "In defense of Ubuntu" (19 Aug 2008)
>>>> http://lwn.net/Articles/294542/
>>>>
>>>> Kevin
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>>
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>> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
>> Use plain text, HTML or PDF (adobe acrobat) in stead.
>> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>>
>>
>>
>> "Is 't noodlot, dat ick vall', van eere en staet berooft,
>> Laet vallen, als ick vall', met deze kroone op 't hooft,
>> Dien scepter in de vuist, dien eersleip van vertrouden,
>> En zoo veel duizenden als onze zyde houden.
>> Dat valle streckt tot eer, en onverwelckbren lof:
>> En liever d' eerste Vorst in eenigh laeger hof,
>> Dan in 't gezalight licht de tweede, of noch een minder
>> Zoo troost ick my de kans, en vrees nu leet noch hinder."
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