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Re: [Plug] hardware problems.
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HERE HERE!!
--
-Rune
Time is Irrelevant to the worlds beyond this godforsaken place unto which
it destroys all.
-Aarune J. Oracle
"In the depths of a mind insane fantasy and reality are the same" -Slayer.
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Mental wrote:
:Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 18:26:41 -0500
:From: Mental <mental@neverlight.com>
:Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:Subject: Re: [Plug] hardware problems.
:
:On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 09:51:56PM +0000, Nicolai Rosen wrote:
:> No more Linux fdisk for RH install? Can it be? ack! If I wanted to use a
:> stupified system, I would've kept Win95! I guess it's FreeBSD for me.
:
:First of all, this whole "I'm so hardcore" thing is dumb. Sorry,
:but it is. If you dont like a distro, pick annother one. Its
:not like you dont have choices. Condemning a distro based on
:a matter of personal opinion is silly. Try debian, or slack.
:Further, jumping on the bandwagon just isnt becoming. FYI, the
:'older' text mode installation program is still there. Type
:'text' at the boot prompt.
:
:<wack observations>
:If you didnt want a stupified system you wouldnt be using package
:management at all. You wouldnt even need make.
:
:If you didnt want stupified you'd be compiling everything yourself.
:
:If you didnt want stupified you would have written your own
:inittab and init scripts.
:
:If you didnt want stupified you'd be running Plan 9.
:
:Actually, if you didnt want stupified you'd be using punch cards.
:
:Just snag a couple of mangets and manually manipulate the inodes
:on the disk.
:
:Blah. Stupified is fine, as long as it works. Its wonderful, just so
:long as I can peek under the hood if I _choose_ to.
:
:I dont like having to learn needless details and mundane crap any
:more than I like being denied the ability to do so.
:
:I want stupified nonsense when I'm feeling lazy. I want source to
:it. I wanna see how they did it when I get time to look. Its
:what keeps the momentum going. I dig it.
:
:I also dig the new kernel. I got bored last night. Here's the
:contents of /proc/version on my laptop:
:Linux version 2.3.32 (mental@nomad) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991109
:(Debian GNU/Linux)) #3 Tue Dec 14 16:02:39 CET 1999
:
:But of course, I used the stupified 'make xconfig' method of setting
:it up. I figured I'd rather be done than spend all night with vi and
:.config.
:</wack observations>
:
:
:Mental
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:
:"you make insanity respectable."
:--Helcat on the subject of Mental.
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