As an humorous change of pace to all the serious "stuff" that's been tossed around on this list over the past week or so, check out Nick Petreley's LinuxWorld column this week:
<http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=742632>j
In particular, the Gentoo Geek Calorie Guide:
Gentoo Linux calories
Installing Gentoo for the first time: 3,700 calories
Installing Gentoo for the second time: 200 calories
Compiling and installing most software on Gentoo Linux: 30 calories
Updating most installed software on Gentoo Linux: 6 calories
Tapping fingers waiting for GNOME or KDE to compile on Gentoo Linux: 1,200 calories
Tapping fingers waiting for an rsync server to become available: 4,700 calories
Tapping fingers waiting for OpenOffice to compile properly on Gentoo: 2,300 calories
Smacking head against wall after you find out there's a binary version available: 6,200 calories
Be well, and Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadians!
/tom
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