[nzlug] Dell are sooo pwn3d

[Michael Adams]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:54:34 +1200
yuri wrote:

> On 28/06/07, David McNab wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 18:19 +1200, yuri wrote:
> > > As for the plethora of distros, Ubuntu seems to be the home user
> > > distro du jour.
> >
> > A major component of a distro's overall quality is the size of its
> > userbase.
> >
> > When one is struggling to get program X working with hardware item
> > Y, adding in kernel patch Z and hacking n config scripts full of
> > ASCII hieroglyphics, it's major reassurance to be able to google
> > through mailing lists and find some other poor buggers who've
> > struggled with the same problem, and one or two who have got it
> > working and posted their howtos.
> >
> > With a smaller userbase, the well-written HOWTOs, the graphical
> > config utilities and the nice HTML manuals tend to disappear, to be
> > replaced by IRC channels and mailing lists full of techno-snobs
> > yelling 'ffs! rtfs you $&#@%^ n00b!!!'
> 
> Since Ubuntu seems to be so successful and has the advantages of a
> high userbase that you mention, I don't see why ISPs and hardware
> manufacturers can't support at least that distro.
> 

You know, i tried to install Ubuntu. The install failed, i believe due
to my favourite filesystem being XFS. It looks like the install kernal
does not have the required XFS hooks compiled in. FWIW i was trying to
set it up multiboot with three existing XFS distro's.

Guess i'll have to live without the wonders of the flavour du jour
(sarcasm).

-- 
Michael
Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion.