Still crazy after all these years

[Tony Alfrey]

Another vote for LILO.  I'm of the "if it works, don't f&%k with it" school.

And about systemd, you should hear the squawk on the SuSE list.


David A. Bandel wrote:
> Hey Kurt, et. al.,
> 
> Still hanging in there. $DAYJOB is at Rice Univ running Linux servers for
> the Computer Science department and clients for the grad students.  RHEL7
> (ugh) and Ubuntu.  RHEL is "official" but the grad students prefer Ubuntu
> -- libraries and stuff more up-to-date.
> 
> Grub -- still a smoking pile of dung.  Unfortunately, most of the distros
> default to that POS. I still prefer lilo.  Grub is larger than DOS 6.2 and
> qualifies as an OS in and of itself.  And yes, it often just craps all over
> itself.  Deal with it.
> 
> Also deal with systemd (sweet Jesus why can't they leave well enough
> alone).  Always fixing what's not broken.  And then there's SELinux.
> 
> Oh well.  Guess they need to keep us on our toes somehow.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> David-
> 
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 5:25 PM, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au>
> wrote:
> 
>> Not much happening. Older, wiser, better looking!
>>
>> Finding I'm using opensource as the glue for a lot of stuff these days.
>> You can create a fix/bridge/workaround with Perl, PHP or Postscript etc
>> that works...
>>
>> I would love to create a browser based barcoding app that would create
>> product carton and pallet labels and drawing the information from a DB...
>> just the problem is time.
>>
>> Australia is still beautiful one day, perfect the next.
>>
>> James McD.
>>
>> On 16 February 2015 at 10:57, <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This thing turned on?
>>>
>>> The obligatory joke: Man comes home after work holding a heart-shaped box
>>> of chocolates over his head to. Wife asks him if it is raining outside. He
>>> says, "No, I just have a heart on."
>>>
>>> I see a few posts continue to dribble in. What's up, old friends?
>>>
>>> K
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