Nah, again I'm just being silly and nonsencial.
And you are definitely right!
On Friday 26 July 2002 19:17, Rusty wrote:
> Hey Steve;
>
> Whats all this about sissies and pansies? I know how to compile a
> program and I also know something about SuSE as I started with
> version 5.1. These guys are Germans and they don't like users to do
> things on their own. If you use SuSE for awhile you find out they
> have made strange links and rearrainged the file system to their
> liking so things that you the user do on your own don't always work.
>
> My experience with SuSE has been to ask first so I don't have to back
> and clean out an installation.
>
> Since I started the thread, let's leave it here.
>
> Rusty
>
> On Friday 26 July 2002 06:24 pm, you wrote:
> > On Friday 26 July 2002 12:46, Jason Pratt wrote:
> > > On Friday 26 July 2002 12:28 pm, you wrote:
> > > > Hm...I hadn't even thought about that (I always compile my own
> > > > apache due to personal configs) but I couldn't find it either.
> > > > I bet it's because we have the "Personal" release and not the
> > > > "Professional" one.
> > >
> > > Question, is there a downloadable version of the Suse 8 distro?
> > > I hear the praises of apt-get and how much easier it is to
> > > install software on it then on an RPM based distro. I'm happy
> > > with Mandrake 8.2 but if I can get something that's quicker and
> > > easier to install packages then I'd be even more happy.
> > >
> > > -J
> >
> > Sheesh guys, What could be easier than installing with Yast2? Or,
> > rpm? Yeah sure, you want an install script to start when you
> > install the CD. But that's that other O/S for sissies and pansies!
> >
> > OK, OK I HAVE a copy too and I'm no pansie...
> >
> > But really, this is Unix in all it's glory. You use a shell to
> > configure your computer! (Not some new fanged GUI some cheap ass
> > developed that made all the new sys admins sissies and pansies
> > because they don't know hot to tar and feather.
> >
> > Well, it's not always fair on newbies to demand they learn the
> > basics, but the truth is that as long as you don't know your basics
> > you get the short end of the stick. More things will happen to you,
> > than you make happen.
> >
> > Last I heard they did put 8.0 up on ftp, but I've not verified
> > myself. Sorry.
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