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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ehsn16.cen.uiuc.edu!jroberts From: jroberts@ehsn16.cen.uiuc.edu (robertson jason vict) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 29 Nov 1995 06:00:21 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Lines: 37 Message-ID: <49gstl$cea@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <48buod$cue@solaria.cc.gatech.edu> <poulosioDIFAnC.ECw@netcom.com> <49bfmj$nhp@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ehsn16.cen.uiuc.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29153 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9783 comp.unix.advocacy:11720 comp.unix.misc:19823 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8916 In article <49bfmj$nhp@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> bl03@uwrf.edu (BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM) writes: >Mad Max (poulosio@netcom.com) wrote: >: >: Byron A Jeff (byron@cc.gatech.edu) wrote: >: >: : Max you keep whining and bitching about the CDROM drive. If you're having >: >: [rest of flame snipped] >: >: Ben Franklin said it best, fuckhead: >: >: "If it sounds too good to be true, it is" >: >: CLUE: I did get one of my CD drives to be seen by Linux, but Slackware >: ver.3 is also fucked. I have already realised that there is no technical >: support for Linux. >: >: Why we dissatisfied users seem so rare is simple: I'm the only one >: willing to speak up, becuse you fuckheads are so happy to flame. This >: flame was written on a CRIPPLED Linux box. >: > ><weak grin> Sorry...I KNEW from past 2.x experience that 3.0 would be >really fubared. =) >BTW, Linux != Slackware...Try 2.3 or RedHat 2.0 or Debian. > >Or build your own.=) That is what people told me in 2.1 days...=) >(of slackware) There's nothing wrong with Slackware that can't be easily fixed. The original poster (the whining guy) just doesn't know what the hell he's doing. There's nothing wrong with that, but he should stick to Windows 3.11 (Windows 95, while simple, would probably tax his limited abilities). -- Buh? PGP: finger jroberts@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu email: jroberts@uiuc.edu [MIME/PGP accepted]