Ubuntu CD's for Free

[Kurt Wall]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:49:47AM -0500, A. Khattri took 76 lines to write:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, David Bandel wrote:
> 
> > 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 believe it was '91 when I started and I was also using SUNOS, UTX32
> (Gould mini) and 4.2BSD-derived systems at that time. (My college still
> had CPM machines in use ;-)

I don't want to start an old-timers' convention here, but there are
plenty of old farts hanging around here. As for me, well, my memory is
vague because the 70s and 80s were hard on my brain, but I seem to recall
learning UNIX on a Vax; I have a picture of me from college typing on a
(by then) ancient Teletype model 37 (not on a *NIX, but I don't think
I know what the OS was anymore - I was typing FORTRAN).

> > Gentoo on the other hand is a little too cutting edge (and I don't
> > want blood all over my clients' systems).
> 
> So I suppose FreeBSD is "cutting edge" because its uses source packages
> too?

No, nor do I think that's what he meant. David's a Debian user (which fact
those of that know him find odd); I know he's not allergic to source. 
I also know he's allergic to installing the latest untested programs Full
o' Untested Feature Goodness (C) just because it's the latest version.

> > Besides, I'd be permanently
> > connected to all my clients waiting for everything to compile.
> 
> On modern servers this is very fast. Even better, I build binaries
> automatically during the wee hours when loads are at their lowest so
> installation becomes a simple binary install the following day.

Clearly, we could have religious war about which distro is the studliest,
bestest, fastest, coolest, *est. Indeed, we have them from time to time.
I'm simply a creature of habit and stick with what I know to work and
with what I'm most comfortable. For me, that's Red Hat. Llama wears a
crimson bonnet; you and Collins like Gentoo. For a long time, a lot of
people on this list were Caldera fans, until Caldera became one.
 
Kurt
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