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On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 18:32:11 -0400 |
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Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Happily, there was a nice pretty lady from Samsung in the office 3 |
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> > months ago wanting to sell the 900X Macbook Air knock-off into the |
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> > company. The IT manager didn't know what to do with the demo she |
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> > left behind so I knicked it for myself (sans paperwork of course. |
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> > Makes it easier to prolong how long it takes to test properly) and |
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> > it's running Ubuntu. Memory issues are a thing of the past and |
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> > everything behaves just like it should. Even <gasp> flash. |
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> That saddens me a little. Of all the friends and coworkers I have, I'm |
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> the only one left using Gentoo. All of them switched to Fedora, or |
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> Ubuntu, or OpenSuSE. |
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I completely understand how you feel. But, I'm enjoying this break from |
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Gentoo. Note I said "break", not "leave behind". |
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It will take 3 to 6 weeks for me to make up my mind what monster Dell I |
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want next, assault Purchasing to make them approve it then have it |
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built in Ireland and shipped to ZA. |
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That's about enough time I think to run into the Ubuntu "you will do it |
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our way with the deps we want you to have" philosophy enough times to |
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drive me back to gentoo. But the next machine will not have KDE on it - |
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all this RAM nonsense started by trying to get Akonadi to work, for very |
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loose definitions of "work", such as "show me my mail sometime today" |
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e17 beckons. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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