Open Letter to Debian and Ubuntu Developers
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#2Hey, Linas Vepstas, buy a UPS so the thunderstorm doesn't shut your machines down. I have machines that have been running for 7 years without issue, and I have dozens of linux boxes. Invariably, the "won't boot" issue happens because a crappy Seagate drive loses integrity and wont read after a power cycle.
If you think it's so easy to write an OS from scratch that has the integrity, solidity, and robustness that Linux has, have at it.
I'm betting it'll take billions of man hours and several years to see the first fruit of your labor, and then people will just bitch about the FREE THING YOU GAVE THEM.
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#3Was that page deliberately designed to be unreadable?
I am honestly trying not to troll. Tried to read and had to give up.
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#4Was that page deliberately designed to be unreadable? I am honestly trying not to troll. Tried to read and had to give up.
I copy and pasted the text to a text editor.
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#5I feel the same way every time I have to work with systemd.
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#6> I mean, I have a really rather high IQ (just look at the web page below), and I have patience that is perhaps unmatched.
I'm guessing you didn't write this, but don't write this.
One, your IQ is irrelevant, it's an outdated way to measure anything practical. Two, patience is relative (and vague). Three, it makes you sound like a conceited jerk.
> We need to figure out what is going wrong, not just at the technical level, but at the social and political level
This is not a constructive criticism.
All in all this post is one of many examples of non-constructive criticism that plagues the open-source world. We know it's supposed to just work. We know it doesn't. Rants don't add value.
By the way:
> Its supposed to be a holdiay weekend. I'm not being paid to run these servers.
Then don't. What are you even doing? You're either working for free or expecting others to, both of which I believe to be a detriment to the free software cause.
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#7I think I would have the same hatred of someone forced me to work on a Windows 8 machine or Microsoft server. You seem to have some buggy boxes why not throw your servers on linode.com and take a snapshot of everything when it's "working" unleSs your line of work requires some physical access constantly but I can't imagine something I can't stream to a server from some backend connection.
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#8I want to have sympathy, but I don't. Get a UPS. And after seeing the website I have to believe the other problems are as much a symptom of the man/setup as anything.
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#9I mean, most people don't have that many problems with Ubuntu and Debian boxes, right? My first thought is, what is the author doing that most people aren't? Maybe stop doing that?
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#10Blah blah blah, things changed, blah blah.
Ubuntu is a better experience than ever. Open source web browsers are better than ever. Maybe this guy thinks he's more clever than he is, and fucks around with too many things. Maybe he hates change. But, trying to be as objective as possible, this post comes across as whining for the sake of whining.
PS. I haven't seen such an ugly website since the 90's...