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Re: Why do you guys use Linux?

From William Poaster <wp@dev.null>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Why do you guys use Linux?
Date 2016-10-12 23:04 +0100
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On 12/10/2016 22:19 in comp.os.linux.advocacy, Marek Novotny posted:

> On 2016-10-12, Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote:
>> Snit Slimeshit babbled:
>>
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>>> On 2016-10-12 3:55 PM, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>>>> Snit Slimeshit babbled:
>>>> 
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>>>>> On 2016-10-12 2:21 PM, Octavian W. Lagrange wrote:
>>>>>> Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote:
>>>>>>> Silver Slimer wrote:
>>>>>>> 
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>>>>>>>> On 2016-10-12 9:27 AM, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Melzzzzz wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 13:30:33 +0200 Peter Köhlmann
>>>>>>>>>> <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Again. I just don't get it, guys. As an Ubuntu
>>>>>>>>>>>> user (and a gaming one, btw) I wonder what is it
>>>>>>>>>>>> you all talking about that shouldn't work?
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> How would he know? He has no linux installed
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> He installed Slackware in 1995....
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Certainly. All 4 disks of it. And he is also a seasoned
>>>>>>>>> Multics user. Did I mention that he is also lying like a
>>>>>>>>> Snit?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Feel free to build yourself some Kraut Timën Machînën, go
>>>>>>>> back in time and verify whether what I said is true or
>>>>>>>> not.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> No need. You have never told the truth. Nobody who *really*
>>>>>>> attempted a Slackware install in 1995 would have forgotten
>>>>>>> that the disk set was *67* disks, not 4 as you "remembered
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> You lied as usual, you rarely if ever tell the truth. Like
>>>>>>> your mentor Snit Michael Glasser. You are, like him, a
>>>>>>> worthless POS
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> My Slackware 3.0 came on CDROM.  My system would not boot from
>>>>>> CDROM. Needed to create boot and root floppies, but the full
>>>>>> system installed from CDROM.  I remember this specifically
>>>>>> because I called Volkerding on the phone to describe a problem
>>>>>> I was having with one of the CDs, and he sent me a new one
>>>>>> Priority Mail.  I thought it was cool that he did that, because
>>>>>> the replacement shipping cost probably erased any profit he had
>>>>>> from the original sale of the boxed set.
>>>>> 
>>>>> However, it was possible to install Linux without _all_ of the
>>>>> packages from a set of floppy disks.
>>>> 
>>>> No, it is not. With just 4 floppy disks you get the kernel and a
>>>> CLI. That's it. Most of the tools are missing. You can't do
>>>> anything with the system because no programs are present. You have
>>>> no network. No printer. No nothing
>>>> 
>>>> And *that* is a system you set up to see if linux is for you? Pull
>>>> the other one, lying imbecile
>>> 
>>> At the time, I wasn't looking to replace Windows 95 necessarily, I was
>>> just curious to see what Linux was like. I had already had some
>>> exposure to the CLI through shell Internet accounts and wondered
>>> whether such a system was available to me, especially for free. Either
>>> way, Linux _was_ installed and I think that even you are realizing
>>> that. Whether minimal or full, it was Linux and it was on my hard disk.
>>> 
>> I realize that you are lying. And you are *really* bad at it. You can't even 
>> get a coherent story.
>>
>> If someone is going to look what another OS looks like (maybe as replacement 
>> for that absolutely shitty Win95), it makes absolutely no sense to install 
>> just as much to get to a prompt *without* anything else to do with it.
>> Why not install the rest of the OS to see what it is about? After all, *if* 
>> your story were true (it is an outright lie) you would already have passed 
>> the most difficult steps and just needed to add the rest to see what it is 
>> about
>>
>> You are lying like a Snit. And every bit as obvious as that lying imbecile
>
> +100

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                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-12 15:37 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-12 21:55 +0200
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-12 16:15 -0400
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                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2016-10-12 15:27 +0100
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                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-12 07:05 -0500
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-12 08:25 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-12 10:11 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-12 11:54 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-12 12:04 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-12 12:15 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-12 12:27 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? tmelmosfire <tmelmosfire@gmail.com> - 2016-10-12 09:56 -0700
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-12 20:09 +0200
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-12 15:33 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-11-01 10:10 -0700
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-12 14:53 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-12 15:50 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-12 16:12 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-12 16:35 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-12 16:46 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-12 17:40 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-12 17:47 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2016-10-12 20:23 +0000
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2016-10-12 20:19 +0000
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-12 16:28 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-12 17:18 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-10-12 23:25 +0200
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2016-10-11 23:15 +0100
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-11 11:39 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-10-11 09:41 -0700
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-11 16:21 -0400
        Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2016-10-11 05:54 +0000
          Re: Why do you guys use Linux? tmelmosfire <tmelmosfire@gmail.com> - 2016-10-10 23:12 -0700
          Re: Why do you guys use Linux? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-11 07:09 -0500
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          Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-11 09:20 -0400
    Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-11 00:07 +0000
      Re: Why do you guys use Linux? ebinsageman@gmail.com - 2016-10-10 17:13 -0700
        Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 21:44 -0400
          Re: Why do you guys use Linux? GreyCloud <Cumulus@mist.com> - 2016-10-10 22:07 -0600
      Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2016-10-11 06:50 +0000
  Re: Why do you guys use Linux? ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2016-10-11 00:42 +0000
    Re: Why do you guys use Linux? GreyCloud <Cumulus@mist.com> - 2016-10-10 22:07 -0600
    Re: Why do you guys use Linux? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-11 07:37 -0500
  Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-10-11 00:17 -0700
  Re: Why do you guys use Linux? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-11 06:54 -0500
  Why do you guys use Linux? Alexander Suvorov <axr.suvorov@yandex.ru> - 2016-10-11 17:50 +0300
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