BTW the datestamps are April 2nd in my part of the world already
On 2 April 2011 04:56, Harish Pillay <[email protected]> wrote: > Martin - > >> friends, >> >> it is with sad eyes that i must say this, but this is it, i am leaving >> the linux world. good bye! >> >> this decision is not done lightly. it was a long time in the making. >> it started when i met my wife. confronted with her windows laptop i had >> to think long and hard whether i could tolerate windows in my home or if >> i should stay single. in the end my wife won. >> >> then i discovered 3d online games. nice, but unplayable under linux. >> even with wine, it just leads to whining. >> >> now my wife is pregnant, and more and more she pushes me to actually >> earn some money. the days where i could work for free on a free >> operating system are gone. i need to bring money in to feed the baby, >> and as you know, noone gets fired for using windows, so that's that. >> >> the last straw was actually this announcement: >> http://www.rpath.com/corp/2010-press-releases/806-11152010 >> >> conary is available on windows! >> >> what more do i need? >> >> think about it. most windows software is not that bad. it's the >> packaging that's horrible. the lack of assurance that installing some >> software will not overwrite some dlls of another program, the inability >> to really cleanly uninstall software and undo changes that an >> inastallation did. all these issues are now a thing of the past. >> >> pike and roxen, two other mainstays in my life also run on windows, even >> chrome, my favourite browser, and for ssh there is the ever excellent >> putty. so there is really nothing for me to miss. >> >> and hence, as i gain more and more experience with windows thanks to the >> games i am playing there, i'll quickly pick a top windows admin job and >> be able to make my wife happy. >> >> i wish my friends in the foresight linux development team good luck! >> >> good bye, and thanks for all the fish! >> >> greetings, martin. > > Indeed, I am troubled with this move of yours. But I respect it and kinda > saw it coming. In fact, when the LUGS did the spot check of the machines > of it's members, no one was actually RUNNING Linux. And it has been that > way from the very beginning. Yes, me too. > > Earlier this morning, the Hurd project finally released [0] and I am moving > out of Linux to Hurd. > > As such I am writing to the LUGS exco to request for an EGM to get > ourselves renamed to HUGS. > > Harish > [0] http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-0.401/hurd-0.401.iso > > _______________________________________________ > LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] > List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]
