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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:15:06 -0800 (PST) From: "Dagmar d'Surreal" <dagmar@dsurreal.org> To: Chris Waters <xtifr@dsp.net> Subject: Re: [svlug] non-religious? count me in! On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Chris Waters wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 06:55:10PM -0800, Dagmar d'Surreal wrote: > > > Post Scriptum: Suggestions that I should switch to Debian, FreeBSD, > > NetBSD, OpenBSD, AIX, Qmail, Djbdns, RedHat or any other platform > > populated by religious obsessives > > Wow, have you found a distro that *isn't* covered with religious > obsessives? If so, let me know ASAP! I'll seriously consider > switching! > > (Any suggestion that Slackware qualifies will be carefully considered > for its comedic value, possibly (if you're lucky) laughed at, and then > recycled into entropy. I used to use Slackware.) I used to use it as well. ...then I learned to compile things for myself. > Actually, while I don't know of any distros that are free from > religious fanatics (except perhaps RH, which suffers more from > clueless imbah-seals -- the AOL of the linux world, as it were), I can > suggest an MTA that seems to be fairly religion-free (at least so > far): Postfix. Its origins in a big faceless company (IBM) seem to > have kept the worst of the woo-wahs at bay. Of course, if you're not > interested in switching for other reasons, that's fine, but I just > thought I'd throw it out. Personally, I used to have a burning desire to beat the hell out of a lot of the RedHat developers. Then I learned that they're basically a small team of people who know what they're doing, being forced to throw out hacks and kludges on a release schedule set by the unfortunately optimistic marketing department. Now I just feel sorry for them. They have, in my opinion, developed more useful technology than the other distros. They overall outcome is just so fucked up as to make their complete product pretty useless. ===