[TriLUG] A bit of Linux motivational humor . . .

[Matthew Pusateri]

Next someone will be saying BSD is dead :)

On Sep 11, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Maarten Lippmann wrote:

> Indeed, Ubuntu does not deserve the level of opprobrium it is
> receiving from certain parts of the linux community.
> However it doesn't deserver the level of fanboi zealot defensiveness
> it is getting from other parts of the community either.
> The post was making fun of the all most popular distrubutions, and the
> posts were funny as there is some truth in all of them. (even the one
> regarding Ubuntu, don't be offended Douglas).
> We just got 3 posts defending ubuntu and noone else feels the need to
> defend their favorite distro, though I bet there's some trilug fans
> out there for each one of the distros mocked.
> I'm a debian fan myself, and am quite arrogant about that; the picture
> is right on.
>
> Ubuntu doesn't need any more defense than the other distro's, they all
> suck or rock for different reasons from different perspectives.
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> I've got to say I know more people that use Ubuntu than any other
>> distribution *as a desktop* Linux system.  The upgrade cycles are  
>> easy and
>> the support is well documented.  I haven't been running Linux as a  
>> desktop
>> for quite some time but the last time I booted a live CD of Ubuntu  
>> I was
>> quite impressed.  The uber-geeks can, and still do, roll their own
>> distributions and for everyone else inbetween there is 1000  
>> varieties of
>> Linux to choose from.  It's all good.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Kevin Hunter  
>> <hunteke at earlham.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> At 9:05pm -0400 on Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Douglas Whitfield wrote:
>>>> I don't see why Ubuntu helping people is a problem?  Ubuntu gets  
>>>> a lot of
>>>> flack for being user friendly.  I'm happy for people to jab at  
>>>> Ubuntu for
>>>> not being as free as possible, but seriously, unless stuff is easy,
>>> people
>>>> aren't going to use it.  The rest, however, I found funny.
>>>
>>> I have forgotten in what circle this came to me, but I (re)post  
>>> here:
>>>
>>> "In defense of Ubuntu" (19 Aug 2008)
>>> http://lwn.net/Articles/294542/
>>>
>>> Kevin
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> "Is 't noodlot, dat ick vall', van eere en staet berooft,
> Laet vallen, als ick vall', met deze kroone op 't hooft,
> Dien scepter in de vuist, dien eersleip van vertrouden,
> En zoo veel duizenden als onze zyde houden.
> Dat valle streckt tot eer, en onverwelckbren lof:
> En liever d' eerste Vorst in eenigh laeger hof,
> Dan in 't gezalight licht de tweede, of noch een minder
> Zoo troost ick my de kans, en vrees nu leet noch hinder."
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