Ubuntu CD's for Free

[David Bandel]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 02:46:40 -0500 (EST), A. Khattri <ajai at bway.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> > Now they've got Ajai to
> > pick on <grin>
> 
> Bring it on.
> 
> Ive probably been using Linux longer than anybody here and despite having
> used RH, Debian and various other flavors for years, Ive finally settled
> on Gentoo. That must mean something... besides, Im tired of dealing with
> RPM hell and waiting YEARS for Debian updates (source updates are much
> faster - I have my own local portage that all my machines sync to and a
> script that builds "binary" packages during the night so updates take 5
> mins).

Maybe yes, maybe no, but you need to be pre-0.99 to beat me (can't
even remember what year that was, perhaps '92 or '93, but I was
admin'ing SunOS4 and Ultrix at the time I found out about Linux and
started playing with it).

I use Debian testing.  Stable is too old, unstable is, well, unstable.
 Testing works well and is current enough (and updates mostly without
my help using cron-apt).

Gentoo on the other hand is a little too cutting edge (and I don't
want blood all over my clients' systems).  Besides, I'd be permanently
connected to all my clients waiting for everything to compile.

Actually, you sound like a Slackware candidate (and if you've used
Linux as long as you say, you must have used Slack as it and SLS were
the only distros before RH came out).

[snip]
> Compu$erve n.
> 
>  See CI$.  Synonyms CompuSpend and
>    Compu$pend are also reported.

Are these folks still around? I thought they died about the time 2400
baud modems were introduced to the unwashed masses.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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