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| DATE | 2002-08-17 |
| FROM | From: "j. ercole"
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] RPM HELL
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"Once upon a midnight dreary, scheme-ing scripts til eyes were bleary,
I heard a knock upon my chamber door - - -
Gar, Gar, say no more."
Thanks for the Gar reminder. I'd forgotten a little bit of my
roots. A man who loses his history becomes a slave.
I'm not sure if quotes like, "not withstanding that I think ports is
better than anything the linux community has come up with. . ." is my
favorite thing about linux and its strange brood, but it's close.
Now, "I like the way ports works. . ." is too cute by half as well. It's
like someone looking at a steam engine in 1855 or so and saying,
"well, if we could graft the legs from a mule onto one of those we'd
really have something there."
Enough.
For the record: Cobble Hill - wireless network - 2 laptops, 1 debian,
1 redhat.
Hard wired at Cobble Hill - 1 redhat, 1 freebsd, and one openbsd
boxen. (3 plan9 boxen I shall not speak of now. . . the work is at a
"delicate" stage.)
LI network - 1 freebsd, 1 debian,
FWIW, I played with gentoo - let's say the idea is *way* ahead of the
genetic technology needed for the "grafting."
In short, I don't want to hear any, "*bsd-swine" leave this list at
once before Stallman himself forces you to install hurd on your
handspring.
Shout out to Billy D.: A while back you had a handspring with a gps.
Having recently acquired one I'm already running through batteries at
an annoying rate. Did you ever buy or come across an adapter, either
cigarette lighter, or otherwise for it. The Magellan is a powerhog,
but it's too much fun. I can honestly say it's the first piece of
technology I've bought in forever that makes me smile and go, "oooh,
this solid state stuff is pretty fun."
Thus spake Ron Guerin (ron-at-vnetworx.net):
> On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 12:28, Ruben I Safir wrote:
> >
> > I like the way ports works, but I think it can be even more flexible.
> >
> >
> > Needless to say, not withstanding that I think ports is better than anything
> > the Linux community has come up with, that I'm not a fan of BSD in the general.
>
> Have you seen GAR?
> http://gar.lnx-bbc.org/
>
> Ron
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