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Re: [LUG] ExeLinux

 
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 :]

A good and honest answer.

My main 'problem solver', 'Knoppix' for something is a much modified
Debian by a one man band with a good reputation.

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regards
Eion MacDonald

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