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Re: [News] Another Interview with the Leader of the Debian Project

  • Subject: Re: [News] Another Interview with the Leader of the Debian Project
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 00:58:24 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> 
>> All roads lead to Debian
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | If most of the Linux distributions derive from either Slackware or
>> | Debian, why not just go to the source? Slackware looks way too hard to
>> | figure out, but Debian, which just released version 4.0, offers a
>> | net-install ISO -- and I've always wanted to install a distro over
>> | the Internet -- so I burned the CD this morning and am currently installing
>> | a Debian system over the Internet.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2007/04/all_roads_lead_to_debian.html
> 
> One weird thing in this article:
> 
>    Open Office Writer. It takes 1 minute, 3 seconds to launch. That's
>    one of the reasons I'm not so happy with Open Office. 
> 
>    . . .
> 
>    On second launch, Open Office loads in 30 seconds. That I can live
>    with.

That is odd. I have a 550Mhz P3 that launches OOo in 25 seconds. It does
have U160 SCSI though. The second launch is 3 seconds. I would have
thought a 1GHz box would've been faster than mine. I guess SCSI make all
the difference.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
`----

Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
 00:56:26 up 13 days, 22:28,  4 users,  load average: 0.36, 0.53, 0.50

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