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["Greg Mayman" <gmone AT tpg.com.au>]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:05:46 -0800, Lee Forrest wrote:

> BL is a hacker's distro. For people who are really into learning
> linux and computers. Much more so than any mainstream distro.

That sounds just fine to me! I don't want something that I have
to _fight_, like I have to with Windoze, just to make it do
things the way I want them done.

> How could it be otherwise? It was created for old computers, which
> vary greatly. And it's _tiny_.

That sounds even better.

> If you want to be an appliance operator, then run one of the
> windoze-wannabee distros (I see that you already do) or windoze
> itself.

Wash yo' mouth out with STRONG soap!

I do _NOT_ use a windoze-wannabee distro of anything.

My other computer has W98, but only because I don't have drivers
for any other OS to suit some of the hardware I use.

That is one reason I want Linux, if I can ever get it working.

> Or accept the challenge and hang around and you'll get all the
> help you want. You will end up creating, effectively, your
> own distro. And learning a _lot_.

It has been disappointing so far.

Advice such as "Don't load too much, or if you do, then destroy
everything you have loaded and start again" is very off-putting.

There has to be a better way to use it.

>> from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia "Queen City of
>> The South" 34:55 S 138:36 E

> You have a lot of transvestites there?

You're thinking of "drag city" aren't you? <GGGGG>

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.  /     \     from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia
.  \_,-*_/     "Queen City of The South"    34:55 S  138:36 E
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