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Re: [LUG] ExeLinux

 
On 11/07/2020 09:28, Mark Andrew Smith via list wrote:
> On 11/07/2020 01:53, comrade meowski wrote:
>> 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 :]
>>
> 
> Mr Meowski, meet Mr Torvalds.
> One-man pet-projects sometimes grow to more than one man.
> 
> 

Concur.
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Eion MacDonald

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