Alternatives that don?t suck?

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> Kurt Wall wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 06:28:40PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
>>
>>> Well, Lonni is right in one respect about the zealots in Debian land.
>>>
>>> The following url represents a fair and reasonable evaluation of the
>>> beta version of Lenny (the next Debian stable), but read the responses
>>> from the gnu-nazis who can't handle the discussion of various non-dfsg
>>> packages. Bah, humbug.
>>>
>>> http://www.deviceguru.com/2008/08/14/testing-debians-lenny-kde-beta/
>>
>> Typical.
>>
>> I guess what I'd say is that all the alternatives suck. They just suck
>> in different ways or, at best, suck less in one way than in another.
>> You pick your poison and deal with the suckage of choice.
>>
...
> I've always wondered why the high priests of Debian don't think mere  
> mortals should ever connect to the internet with dialup; this privilege  
> apparently is reserved for root.  Those of us who used Corel Linux  
> remember the hoop-leaping exercise.

Perhaps they're too modern to understand how uucp, cu, and
ckermit handle devices.

Bill
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