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Re: Why do you guys use Linux?

From Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Why do you guys use Linux?
Date 2016-11-01 10:10 -0700
Message-ID <D43E1A7A.8186E%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
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On 10/12/16, 1:30 PM, in article ntm6gi$i5n$1@dont-email.me, "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
> 

Peter Köhlmann claimed: "I have hardly talked about [Snit]" during October,
when I did not post at all.

You lied. Period.


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                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-12 15:37 -0400
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                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-11-01 10:09 -0700
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                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-12 08:25 -0400
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                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
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                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
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                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-12 16:46 -0400
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                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
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          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
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    Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-11 15:17 +0000
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