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Thomas Mueller wrote: |
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>> I got a message from him. At least we will know he is OK. All his |
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>> machines was switched to Arch Linux and he wasn't using Gentoo anymore. |
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>> So, he unsubscribed and got active with Arch. |
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>> Miss the guy but glad he is OK and nothing happened to him. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-)Â :-)Â |
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> When I sent this message the first time, I inadvertently forgot the Subject: line, hence this repeat sending. Sorry! |
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> When you mentioned the other Allan, I thought of Allan Gottlieb, who used to be on Gentoo list. |
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> I think he was younger than me by two or three months? |
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> I believe he is the same Allan Gottlieb I met years ago at The Rockefeller University when he was an (assistant? associate?) professor at CUNY in New York City. |
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> I don't know if he is still living. |
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> Regarding Arch, I believe Arch Linux is mainly binary-based, rather than source-based as is the case with Gentoo. |
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> In May 2013, I joined Arch Linux emailing lists, asked the question about how an Arch system could be updated by building from source, as can be done with FreeBSD and NetBSD. |
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> Moderator rejected that message, stating that if I looked through the wiki, I could find the answer inside ten minutes, which I couldn't. |
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> FreeBSD, NetBSD and Gentoo emailing lists are not so hostile! |
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> Not wanting to feel so tongue-tied, I unsubscribed and became an infant mortality on the Arch emailing lists. |
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> This was the first and only open-source OS or distro that I rejected on sociological grounds. |
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> Tom |
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Yea, there is some good folks on this list. Everyone tries to help in |
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different ways. If one way isn't working, someone posts a alternative |
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method. Some, myself included, get upset at software sometimes tho. |
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Dare I mention hal?? The -user list has always been friendly. The -dev |
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list is much better now but way back, it was like walking in a field of |
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land mines. At one point, I unsubbed from -dev because it was more |
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about people going after each other than accomplishing anything. Now, I |
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monitor it again to see what is coming around the next bend. It's a |
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MUCH friendlier place now. |
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I was referring to Alan McKinnon. If he even thought he had a solution, |
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he'd post it. Most of the time, it was a good option. The biggest |
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thing, I'm just glad he is OK. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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