-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 08:09 am, Marv Boyes wrote:
> I got it in person once, in a retail store. > > I was in the local CompUSA and eventually ended up chatting with one of > the store employees about Linux-- he caught me looking at a FreeBSD > boxed set, or something, and we ended up talking about Linux/free OSes > in general. About five minutes into the conversation, I mentioned that I > was running Mandrake 9.2. > > "I have no use for anything derivative of the Red Hat kernel," he said, > and walked away. > > What the HELL was that all about? You'd think I told the guy that I kill > puppies in my spare time. Someone's priorities are seriously out of > whack if they can afford that kind of snobbery over _code_, for crying > out loud. > > It's a shame it was CompUSA, too-- the one retail store around here > that's even remotely Linux-friendly. Principle says, "don't go back > there." Consumerism says, "you ain't gonna find that external hard drive > enclosure cheaper anywhere else, or take it home today." ;) Far be it > from me to let principle stand in the way of a bargain. > > But why couldn't it have been a Circuit City, or someplace similarly > useless that I wouldn't mind never setting foot in again? ;) > > Mandrake's a good, solid distro. As long as you're enjoying it, don't > let anyone tell you otherwise. > > Marv Too bad you got it too Marv. Well, I'm firing up two IBM xseries servers with Mdk and nothing's gonna stop them. One to be placed in public, and the other in LAN. On the other hand, Linux desktop initiative has been started, and someday those "super Linux gurus" will beg for easiness once their users start complaining that their Linux is "too difficult" to be used in desktop. Sorry for the harsh word. My father has asked me to help him install windows 98 in chinese, and I don't know any single word of it. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 09:33:08 up 11 min, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAdLu7kp5CsIXuxqURAgXXAKCjf5OttJcrpSC7G8H0jqTVQgAmkACfbDQZ Vr2XMJvvvGJNYMtfu9B+ZNo= =l+iI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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