So Long, SuSE, We Hardly Knew Ye!

Ric Moore wayward4now
Tue Nov 7 09:56:53 PST 2006


On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 09:14 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Monday 06 November 2006 22:52, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > Ok, what's the best way to get a copy of kunbuntu??  I'd rather not
> > > download the whole thing unless it can be done in chunks...  Would rather
> > > get a DVD or CD's.
> >
> > Well, just come on over to Fedora! We'd love ta have ye. We'll even let
> > you look at the Big Board! There is no mine shaft gap there. Free cubic
> > desktop, exploding kernels and a pretty decent crowd to hang with on the
> > list, full of Linux notables. FC6 has been released recently so you
> > might as well join in the Bug-Hunt. It's a fun crowd and well behaved.
> > Ric
> 
> Well, I started waaay back in '94 with Slackware and had no problem getting it 
> running even with a tough setup of two SCSI controllers on one machine.  All 
> the info to do this was in the little pamphlet provided.
> 
> Then I tried RH and could not get it installed.  Asked support.  6 weeks later 
> I got a response.   Trashed it.
Hrmmm... there didn't happen to be a spin off on Burma-Shave or a Haiku
in the Subject line, was there? <huge grins> I would hope it wasn't ME
that drove you off! <cackles> No, I came onto that scene in 1999-2000

"Customer pissed, mouse is missed, try this way, saves the day -- RedHat
saves." 

I had no end of fun as most would reply with their own...
"Mouse is found, onto next round, video is borked, customer still
torqued."

Never got a complaint. Maybe they were too bewildered to do so. 

<evil grin> Ric
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