Robert Snyder said:
> Jason Boxman wrote:
>> Robert Snyder said:
>> <snip>
>>
>>> But the core problem that people have with slackware is that it is
>>> controlled by one man ( Patrick ) and Ian just did not like the way
>>> Patrick ran the distro. Hence why Slackware is still very much a closed
>>> nit operation and why debian is the complete oposite with community
>>> controlled distrobution.
>>>
>>
>> And Debian has its own interesting set of quirks, RE: a DPL nominee's
>> recent
>> withdraw of application. Check out DWN from the past week or two. It
>> seems
>> the lists and IRC can be quite hostile. ;)
>>
>>
> #debian has always been hostile even more so since the growing
> popularity of Knoppix and Ubuntu. It really depends on who is in that
> room at a given time. Some times you can ask a question and get
> wonderful help and other times you get you head bitten off. Where
> another distrobutions room which i will not mention as people find that
> I support them to much, has wonderful people and less of the hostility.
Naw, back in the day I'd help nubs install. I even played some TF on
netgod's TF server. Of course, this was back in the day. It's not the same
#debian anymore.
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