Review of the 10 most popular distros

[Mike]

please don't flame me for asking 'why would you do that?'
I investigated the link after I sent it.
OOPS!

On Sunday 02 April 2006 08:56, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> Mike Garfias wrote:
> >Too bad Theo is a putz.  Seriously, I'd use obsd more if it wasn't for the
> >attitude.  Yes, I know I'm writing this across and SSH session made
> > possible by them.  I have also given them cash in the past.
> >
> >But, the guy is such a jerk that I can't support them any more.
> >
> >And I stuck with Debian through Bruce Peren's reign.
>
> You're not the only one to feel that way. ;)
>
> Personally, I don't think Theo is that bad. He's uncompromising and
> speaks his mind. I've seen him flame newbies, but I've also seen him
> flame developers in defense of newbies. I've also seen him give gentle
> encouragement. If you've done your homework and post something sensible
> then you won't have much trouble. That said, it's still not as friendly
> a community as Linux people are used to.
>
> And yes, I've been flamed. I got over it and learned to do my homework.
> Why? Because the system documentation is darned good. Just a couple of
> evenings ago I installed openbsd on a Sun Netra with no CD, no floppy,
> no display adapter (it's a 1U server). I've never done net booting
> before, and the sparc64 architecture is new to me. I had to learn about
> net booting and sparc64, and relearn NFS, configure and start 3 new
> services, and more stuff I'm forgetting now. I did all this in one
> evening by reading man pages and searching the mailing list archives,
> and didn't need to ask a single question on the mailing lists.
>
> Does that mean I'm ubergeek? No, it means countless hours have been put
> into documentation, and many more hours going over things on the mailing
> lists. Having read what's been written I didn't need to ask. If I hadn't
> done my homework and posted to the list the first time I got stuck I
> would have been flamed.
>
> It was pretty much the same scene on #perl in the old days. Many of the
> core perlers hung out there, and they'd written tons of nice docs that
> came with every perl install. If you posted a question covered in the
> FAQs you got a pretty nasty RTFM and sometimes got the boot as well. But
> if you had already RTFM and asked a thoughtful question you could get
> pretty in-depth help from some of the best perl guys anywhere.
>
> It's a price I'm willing to pay.