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Andreas Karlsson <hermes@××××.se> posted |
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200607180008.37297.hermes@××××.se, excerpted below, on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 |
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> Unstable can be ... well, too unstable at times . I'm running unstable amd64 |
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> and been forced to live with all its quirks. That can be just as anoying as |
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> rewarding helping out solving bugs etc. |
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I don't see it as... annoying; I see it as... challenging! =8^) |
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Seriously, computing is my hobby, and as such, it needs to remain a bit |
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challenging from time to time, or it would cease to be of interest. I |
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can't well make a hobby out of my microwave or freezer, as they are almost |
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plug and forget (well, until they die altogether and I get new ones). |
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Watching paint dry or a plant grow can be /boring/ as a hobby! With |
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computing, in particular, with Gentoo ~amd64 plus some not-yet-unmasked |
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packages like xorg, kde, gcc, etc, as they come along to spice things up, |
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I get enough challenge to keep things interesting! =8^) |
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Of course, if I were running Gentoo on a mission critical server or |
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something, as part of my livelihood, I'd probably run stable, but it's a |
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hobby, and for that hobby, stable is simply too frustratingly old, and |
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likely too frustratingly stable. <g> (I've never actually run Gentoo |
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stable so I don't know how stable it might or might not be, but I /do/ |
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know KDE 3.4.x when KDE 3.5.3 is out, as the spread to stable happened to |
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be at one point, is just the sort of reason I left Mandrake Cooker for |
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AMD64 and switched to Gentoo ~amd64!) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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