Test -- Where have all the horses gone?

[David Bandel]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:23:21 -0600, Michael Hipp <michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:41:14 -0500, Brad De Vries <devriesbj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Here we go again. Have you checked the archives for recent threads on
> > this very topic?
> >
> > In the old days (Caldera), it was a struggle to get almost any package
> > or piece of hardware working, so there was a lot of traffic. Now, with
> > debian, slackware, fedora, gentoo, etc. most everything works, and
> > thus the traffic volume is low.
> 
> And another factor is the general quality and quantity of Linux
> documentation has improved greatly. Google can find the answer to almost
> any question.
> 
> As for there not being any "serious power" on this list (that
> description never applied to me anyway), it's been a rare occasion when
> I asked a question on this list and didn't get some authoritative answers.

Go try that on the Debian Lusers List.  There are the gratuitous 50 or
so RTFM answers.  Then there's about 100 flames (more if you're
obviously a newbie).  Somewhere in there you might find one or two
folks who, despite their lack of knowledge, have at least tried to
provide an answer (because they feel sorry for you after having borne
the brunt of RTFM/flames themselves).

About the only questions I've seen lately (on another list) had more
to do with Fedora's new use of SE Linux policies because "xyz doesn't
work after upgrading".

Things really are getting better.  Now if we could just keep the
eternal surprises (like SE Linux policy use) to a minimum.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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