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Re: [LUG] ExeLinux

 

On 11/07/2020 00:21, Simon Waters wrote:
On Friday, 10 July 2020 21:38:03 BST comrade meowski wrote:
Lol who cares? That's why we have the internet in the first place.
Bootable distro maintainer close to my house, I can see uses for that; some
people are never happy.

The thing about flavours is if they don't suit don't order them.

I'm guessing that since it hasn't over taken Mint or Debian, there isn't
compelling demand to escape systemd in bootable images, but if no one offers
the choice how will we know if the "systemd is evil" crowd are just moaners
like me, or serious?
Maybe I should backup a bit to say that I mean no slight to David Hare 
and his distro (I'm going to have to bloody testdrive it now of course) 
and I'm pleased that it even exists. Paul to be fair was probably only 
commenting on it in the first place because it's a local bit of linux 
news - which is uncommon itself - and this is actually a localised linux 
resource as well, being a LUG! Now in retrospect I actually feel dumb 
for even responding so negatively - what else is a LUG for if not 
mentioning occasional localised linux news after all?
So apologies all round I guess. I was a bit flatfooted by the idea that 
any utility was served by a linux distro being maintained locally though 
and I stick to that. Seriously, what are you planning to do if you need 
help with exegnulinux (entirely possible as there's a lot that can go 
wrong if it's one man's pet project)? Pop around to his house for a cuppa?!
That makes no sense to me, I don't want a one man bottleneck anywhere. 
Call me crazy but I'll stick to using mainstream distro releases built 
by entire international teams of professionals with massive communities 
available for help 24/7. If my Arch/CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu/etc distros 
play up my sources for information and help are vast - that bloke around 
the corner's one-man livecd? Not so much. What if he's gone on holiday 
for a month?!
Now because fair is fair I'm going to try it out in a VM. I'm going to 
be furious if I end up liking it :]
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