In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:42:14 +0000
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> ____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Wednesday 05 March 2008 20:47 : \____
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>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb
>> <brick.n.straw@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:23:48 -0500
>> <1bkdm31c5qvjo.1i5n9kdciyvet.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:17:03 -0800, Tim Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <5481648.DByOys2Cf2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> It's a kernel, just like Linux. They share the same components on top
>>>>> (whatever
>>>>> makes a GNU/Linux distribution). BSD even uses and relies on Linux
>>>>> software (through compatibility layers). I use a lot of BSD software.
>>>>
>>>> So? Read the charter sometime.
>>>
>>> Yea.
>>> Even by their own charter, Schestowitz is by far the worst offender.
>>>
>>
>> Fine; send an abuse report to his uplink. Haven't you
>> figured that out *yet*? :-P
>>
>> You can also, if you like, issue a Call for Revision
>> (or whatever it's called) to change the charter, or even
>> a Call to Vacate (not sure what that's called officially
>> either) to request that this newsgroup be deleted from
>> all newsspools. (Such are of course rare in the comp.*
>> hierarchy, but there does exist a procedure.)
>
> Using OpenSSH or something like PostgreSQL is not off topic.
Ideally, it would be unless one is discussing the
relatively minor subpoint of behavior and/or performance
under Linux, versus under, say, FreeBSD. For example,
X runs on Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. It is very slow
on Windows (though Cygwin might be working on that).
I don't know how fast X is on FreeBSD as I've not gotten
around to getting it working.
Of course, since most people think "generic Linux distro"
when one says Linux, and since said distro includes OpenSSH
and PostgreSQL, this is on topic no matter how one stirs
it. ;-)
In any event, this is Moshe's problem. If he's going to
complain, fine; I'm suggesting he do something about it.
So far, his backbone seems to be somewhere between liquescing
jelly and a balloon that's leaking air, but we'll see.
> This group is
> about GNU/Linux, unless we were to just discuss the
> programming choices and decisions in the kernel, which
> would be boring.
To you, maybe. ;-) But I'll agree part of the reason I
like this group is that I learn things, and not about the
kernel either.
>
> The scope of the word Linux isn't what it used to be.
>
Maybe, but the scope of the desktop isn't, either; the world's
gone mobile-mad, and embedded devices and servers are all over
the place.
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