[ale] I am so tired of Linux Fanatics

Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com
Thu Jul 8 11:44:19 EDT 2010


On Thu July 8 2010, Jim Kinney wrote:
> My greatest "AH HA!" moment reading man pages was when I discovered I could
> search for terms within man pages by hitting /<search term>  or /"search
> term" when it had spaces.
>
I....was....unaware of that search feature!!!!!!!!! and that is a VI function 
that I have used for over 20 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
>
> eons ago (before SuSE drank the kool-aide and open-sourced their installer)
> I was tinkering with a SuSE installation issue. They had no release notes
> on their installer. They had notes on the distro but their installer was a
> black box. And it was failing to run on my chipset (that was about 2 years
> old so it should have been supported). End result is RedHat installed
> nicely and their notes on their installer covered the chipset
> initialization failure and provided a workaround (don't ask. It was like
> RedHat 4.2 era). Thusly, I wound up firmly in the RedHat camp since their
> output was more professional and robust and informative and open. 
>
I installed Red Hat from about V 3.2 . I must admit they have excellent tech 
support. I will never forget one install that wouldn't go right, weird 
error.. Called em up, he looked in his database to find that that version, I 
think it was 3.2 or 3.4 only support file systems of 1TB or LESS. I counted 6 
300Gb drives in the rack.... hmmm...

> And from that was born Ubuntu....  :D
and I keep installing it on my laptop, after I try something ELSE and don't 
LIKE it!


-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Registered Ubuntu User #12459
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