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Re: The Joy of GNU/Linux (Sincerely)

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On 2024-12-11, Jody Stankowitz <mainframeslive@yah00.org> wrote:
> In article <pan$4a12c$194384aa$88ca8b74$d240ab10
> @linux.rocks>, ff@linux.rocks says...
>> 
>> Hey GNU/Linux enthusiasts! (Distro lackeys go away.)
>> 
>> My marvelous Gentoo portage machine recently updated glib and
>> several associated packages.
>> 
>> Then, my equally marvelous Midnight Commander suddenly could not
>> open files.  WTF!  What was a poor boy to do?
>> 
>> Fortunately, the equally marvelous GNU/Linux community came
>> to the rescue.  A bug report and solution was already submitted
>> (a LOT of people use MC):
>> 
>> http://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4502
>> 
>> But the problem is not MC but that fucking glib, which is another
>> product of the assholic freedesktop.org.
>> 
>> Linus Torvalds, the benevolent dictator of the Linux kernel,
>> has always enforced the basic dictum: do not break user space.
>> 
>> Indeed, one can be assured that the essential kernel API will
>> remain unchanged and all software will continue to function
>> as per usual.
>> 
>> But the fucking assholes at freedesktop.org will only say:
>> "Fuck you.  We can change the fucking API any time we fucking
>> please without fucking prior notification."
>> 
>> Those freedesktop.org assholes should be dragged into the
>> street and beaten with heavy chains.
>
> You use Gentoo? 
> WTF?
> Why?
> Well that explains why you are so fucked up.

Thanks for the information.
I use MX Linux but might give Gentoo a try if I have some free time over the
holidays.


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The Joy of GNU/Linux (Sincerely) Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-11 19:25 +0000
  Re: The Joy of GNU/Linux (Sincerely) Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-11 14:31 -0500
  Re: The Joy of GNU/Linux (Sincerely) Jody Stankowitz <mainframeslive@yah00.org> - 2024-12-11 15:47 -0500
    Re: The Joy of GNU/Linux (Sincerely) Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-11 21:47 +0000
    Re: ms-windows-xp user thinks he is witty (Was: The Joy of GNU/Linux (Sincerely)) "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2024-12-12 08:18 +0100
    Re: The Joy of GNU/Linux (Sincerely) CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-12 10:05 -0500
      Re: The Joy of GNU/Linux (Sincerely) Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-12 22:57 +0000
      Re: The Joy of GNU/Linux (Sincerely) Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-12 18:12 -0500
        Re: The Joy of GNU/Linux (Sincerely) CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-12 20:09 -0500
      Re: The Joy of GNU/Linux (Sincerely) Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-12-12 19:45 -0500
        Re: The Joy of GNU/Linux (Sincerely) CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-12 20:12 -0500
        Re: The Joy of GNU/Linux (Sincerely) bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2024-12-13 08:29 -0500
        Re: The Joy of GNU/Linux (Sincerely) Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-13 08:43 -0500
    Re: The Joy of GNU/Linux (Sincerely) pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2024-12-13 15:53 +0000
      Re: The Joy of GNU/Linux (Sincerely) Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-13 11:00 -0500
  Re: The Joy of GNU/Linux (Sincerely) Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-12-13 21:39 +0000

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