Matthew Wright wrote:
>
> I'm sick of this topic.
>
Me too Matthew. Having used Slackware, which still remains my favorite
distribution, I find Mandrake absolutely brilliant. It installs in
about 10 minutes and is basically all ready to play with. The Mandrake
team have put together somet
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> A disturbing trend in this modern age
> is that we feel compelled to protect us from
> ourselves. Microsoft offered up a convenient
> black box that protected us from the horrors of
> it's inner truth. Linux was to be the answer to
> that ignorance-by-consent.
>
Is it ok if we piss on?
I saw someone do that on a windows machine,
I just hope the poor bugger had it unplugged!!
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Get a life, quit complaining.
>
> You don't like it? go use Suse, Slack or whatever... I DON'T CARE just piss
> off.
>
> --
> +
fits in, and what must be done to make the OS compatible with the hardware.
73, & ttyl
Don
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "Ken Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 10:
AMEN!
Pelon wrote:
>
> A disturbing trend in this modern age
> is that we feel compelled to protect us from
> ourselves. Microsoft offered up a convenient
> black box that protected us from the horrors of
> it's inner truth. Linux was to be the answer to
> that ignorance-by-consent.
>
> I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Better yet, quit complaining and start your own distribution. You can
> even base it off of Mandrake. Then you can patch it and make it
> "yours" since your way is obviously better than the Mandrake
> designers.
YEAH, and we can remove the need to log in at all,
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 11:44:32PM -0400, Hoyt wrote:
> Apparently this is the claim of a new distro - MaxOS - just 12 minutes from
> show to go.
>
> It'll be interesting to see just how they install.
I can speak from experience here since I installed it one machine and
watched it get installed
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 05:10:22PM -0400, Pelon wrote:
[... much deleted ...]
> I would recommend two new classes of installation:
>
> 1. protect me from myself
> 2. let me be free
These already exist. They're called security levels. You can have
super tight so you can hardly login or do
I'm sick of this topic.
First of all, where do you get off complaining about the Mandrake distro
when it's a completely free operating system that gives you complete
control? The guys at Mandrake have done an excellent job at puting
together this distribution; having used the many other distribu
- Original Message -
From: "Ken Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Freedoms Past
.
>
> Some of the recent threads on this list are getting a little old. If you
want
> easy of in
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, you wrote:
I believe you already have these "new classes of installation". They are
called Low, Medium, High and Paranoid if I am not mistaken.
FWIW I have been using Linux for 4 years and have tried all the popular
distributions before settling on Mandrake. I am now using
Pelon wrote:
> A disturbing trend in this modern age
> is that we feel compelled to protect us from
> ourselves. Microsoft offered up a convenient
> black box that protected us from the horrors of
> it's inner truth. Linux was to be the answer to
> that ignorance-by-consent.
>
> I began using Lin
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