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On Tuesday 13 June 2006 16:17, Peter wrote: |
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> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:17:10 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > | Care to elaborate? The wise, all-knowing Zen argument isn't | |
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> > particularly helpful.... |
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> > It's perfect proof that there are users that are utterly clueless about |
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> > what is best for their system, and utterly clueless about how using |
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> > third party software can cause problems for other software. |
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> It's no such proof. Anyone who rolls a kernel, takes the time to learn |
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> what it entails, understands what he/she is intending to do, knows the |
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> ramifications of those actions. Gentoo users, in particular, by virtue of |
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> the fact that this is a source-based distro, have to be accorded a |
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> slightly higher level of respect and regard. |
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you clearly have never heard of love/nitro sources and all the fun we went |
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through back when they were being "actively maintained" |
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being able to download patchsets from the internet, touchup a few lines so |
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they apply without rejects, and releasing the result to the rest of the world |
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deserves no respect/regard ... you've proven you have skills at: |
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- wget |
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- patch |
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- an editor |
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- tar |
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the respect/regard comes when the compiled kernel *actually performs* |
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-mike |
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