Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
> > Why on earth should this be posted to a
> > support list?
> There should be a reason. Nothing happens without a
> reason :)
And you didn't answer the question. Why is this *here*? I can think of
several places that would have been better for this than blfs-support.
/dev/null is among them.

 > On what grounds you call it a **newbie-oriented
> distro**? Have you use it before? Have seen it before?
> Do you have any idea about it's internals as a fairly
> advanced user?
I was going by the information given on the website and in your mail
(hence the 'seemingly').  It has buzzwords, it has screenshots of
apps, it has pretty pictures that seem to show dataflow at the user
level, and it has nary a technical detail in sight. But  my point was
primarily meant to be "what does this have to do with LFS?" - the
answer still seems to be "nothing", except perhaps that it utilises a
package management system originally designed for LFS. Which is still,
as far as I can tell, no reason to tell blfs-support about it.  No I
haven't used it, and I don't see any particular reason why I (or
anyone else on this list) should use it, or even care about the fact
that it exists.

> Can the website be still under construction during a
> holiday period? :)
I would have thought it a good idea to finish something so obviously
marketing-driven *before* going live. First impressions do count. It
would be nice atleast for something posted to a tech-related list to
have *some* technical information.

> 1. Where does LFS+BLFS stands compared to SuSE,
> Fedora, Ubuntu, Kubuntu? Which one can be bet on for
> technical superiority for today and tomorrow?
How does this answer my question? How is this relavant? *LFS is
superior to other distros in how it caters for people wanting to learn
about their system - but we know this (this is, after all, a primary
design point for LFS). That isn't what I asked - I asked what claims
Tomahawk makes about what benifit this distro has.

> 2. How to you appreciate the Package User system
> (package-user hint) compared to RPM, deb and others?
Why aren't the benifits of this system mentioned anywhere in your
buzzwords? You say on the website that 'there is no database to
corrupt'. Ok, sure - same can be said for ROX appdirs, install-log,
paco, DESTDIR + symlinks, the almost-appdir system GoboLinux uses, and
for having no package management system at all.

> 3. Which distro guarantee it is resistant for
> Pharming?
*goes to look up 'pharming'*.  Ok, sure, I don't know of any others
that are guaranteed to be resistant to this. Equally, I don't see what
basis you have for claiming that this one is. Or even any explanation
anywhere of why this is benificial to the user. Or anything other than
just another marketing point - "we do unexplained-buzzword! we resist
another-unexplained-buzzword!". Give us *facts*, not hype. And atleast
*try* to send it to the right place. Slashdot, for example, tends to
publish marketing hype at every opportunity.

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