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On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Peter da Silva wrote:
> First: there ain't any such thing as "linux". There's a bunch of OSes that
> run on the Linux kernel, but you haven't bothered identifying which one you're
> using, or why you're still using LILO instead of Grub.
I didn't mention which one because it's my fifth distro, and they've all
had similar problems. I've also used FreeBSD and OpenBSD. (And Solaris,
AIX, and HP-UX.) I'm a Unix admin for a living.
And you can play the whole "GNU/linux" vs. "linux" vs. "whatever" thing,
but most of the problems I'm having are essentially fundamental to how the
OSS people view the world: It doesn't need to be easy, it just needs to
be possible.
Why am I using LILO instead of Grub? I believe that the last time I
tried, I gave up after 2 hours of trying to get it to work. Oh yeah, if I
had a single IDE drive with two partitions on it, I'm sure it would have
been easy. But I don't, so it wasn't. I believe it didn't like my 2 SCSI
and 2 IDE drives with two copies of linux and two copies of BeOS.
But it was at least 1.5 years ago, so I don't remember. Suffice it to say
it was a better tool on the same model: It doesn't need to be easy, it
just needs to be possible.
> But I'm not here to talk about that, or about Alice (Alice isn't even in this
> song), no, I'm here to say one thing and one thing only. Why don't you say it
> too, keep it up, pretty soon we'll have a movement.
>
> You can get everything you want, at http://www.freebsd.org/ .
>
> (except of course it sucks too, it's software after all, but it sounds to me
> like it'll suck a bit less than whatever Linux-based mess you're using now, or
> at least it'll suck different)
Been there, done that, don't remember why I left. But I can guarantee
that replacing the boot drive won't be anywhere near as trivial as it was
on BeOS, or as it was, for instance, on Mac OS 9 (OS X has definitely
regressed in this area).
If I get desperate, I might try it again, but that seems a bit unlikely.
They still use XFree86, which I hate, and they won't have a better mp3
player that doesn't run on linux. Their NFS might not be as horrible as
linux's, though.
At this point I'm just fighting off replacing all of my x86 hardware with
Mac hardware; at least then I don't have to deal with the disgustingly bad
features of this platform: 20-30 seconds to get through the BIOS,
incredibly retarded boot sequences, retarded rules about how you boot off
a given disk or partition, retarded limitations on partitioning methods (I
guess that's the software, though, huh?).
Ugh. I'm just upset because I never was able to recover my linux box last
night. It still boots just dandily into BeOS, bu not dice on linux.
And I've got plenty of non-linux hate that would be just as present on
FreeBSD, for things like Gnome, OpenLDAP, etc.
Luke
--
If a dog jumps onto your lap it is because he is fond of you; but if a
cat does the same thing it is because your lap is warmer.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
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