Re: Another Windows Joke / 2.4 kernel

2000-09-25 Thread Ben Barrett
I've been using a 2.3.99pre9 kernel for a while now, with absolutely NO problems, I guess I should update soon though : ) -ben -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "slide" to www.euglug.org in lake'ch, my kin... 4 Ix Finally, I (this

CVS (was: Another Windows Joke / 2.4 kernel)

2000-09-25 Thread Bob Miller
Ben Barrett wrote: very neat. CVS is really lacking for some things Seth (others too?), what do you want cvs to do? I've used it for 3 projects, just the basic command-line tool w/ options, but notice thatadd-ons like sourceforge itself, and emacs frontends add a lot of

Re: Another Windows Joke

2000-09-20 Thread Bob Miller
Seth Cohn wrote: Sloppy coders are laughed at in the open source world because of the sloppy code, and so they are loath to even put stuff out there, because in a closed source environment, nobody knows how bad the code is, but when everyone can review and patch, bad code sticks out like a

Re: Another Windows Joke

2000-09-20 Thread Seth Cohn
Interesting Rant... you might develop this a bit and submit it to Freshmeat... worth a t-shirt I'll bet. :) On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Bob Miller wrote: Seth Cohn wrote: Sloppy coders are laughed at in the open source world because of the sloppy code, and so they are loath to even put stuff

Another Windows Joke

2000-09-19 Thread Bob Miller
Actually, it isn't a joke, it's a real piece of mail, whose author is, AFAIK, serious. Windows is the joke. - Forwarded message from name withheld - Subject: Re: Supporting commercial software on open source platforms Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:41:39 -0400 From: name withheld what

Re: Another Windows Joke

2000-09-19 Thread Seth Cohn
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Bob Miller wrote: Actually, it isn't a joke, it's a real piece of mail, whose author is, AFAIK, serious. Windows is the joke. It is serious. We've discussed this before: Linux support is ultimately easier to do (more remote access, less time spent, less fixing needed,