This runs an hour 1/2 but it was an interesting interview. I watched/listened to it over a few days while I was in the kitchen.
Glorious Eggroll Interview
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I used to use his stuff, but then I found that the native approach was better.
It's great to hear from him in the flesh though (and his beginnings with Linux). He's been a saviour.
Mandrake 7.0 was the coolest thing in those days. I hear electric guitars in my head thinking about it... that kind of cool. It's like, Windows... sad trombone slide. Mandrake? A majestic guitar lead, in a rock ensemble
P.S. Also, yeah, you'd have to be an asshole to use Arch for anything, that anyone, anywhere is relying on. It's actually pretty great for me, all grousing aside, but I can't imagine running an "Arch server". Nope, that's it, PHP version 873.0.2 for you, it doesn't break anything in our distro. etc.
But that's bollocks about "the opportunity to tweak also means you'll be breaking things and spending more time". So don't tweak. If you just stick to the script (which I can't and won't do), you aren't going to "break" Arch. They are complaining about having "that much control". That isn't the reason that Arch isn't the best choice for a work environment.
I don't break Arch though, I work on it to fix it (for me).
It's great to hear from him in the flesh though (and his beginnings with Linux). He's been a saviour.
Mandrake 7.0 was the coolest thing in those days. I hear electric guitars in my head thinking about it... that kind of cool. It's like, Windows... sad trombone slide. Mandrake? A majestic guitar lead, in a rock ensemble
P.S. Also, yeah, you'd have to be an asshole to use Arch for anything, that anyone, anywhere is relying on. It's actually pretty great for me, all grousing aside, but I can't imagine running an "Arch server". Nope, that's it, PHP version 873.0.2 for you, it doesn't break anything in our distro. etc.
But that's bollocks about "the opportunity to tweak also means you'll be breaking things and spending more time". So don't tweak. If you just stick to the script (which I can't and won't do), you aren't going to "break" Arch. They are complaining about having "that much control". That isn't the reason that Arch isn't the best choice for a work environment.
I don't break Arch though, I work on it to fix it (for me).
Re: Glorious Eggroll Interview
I started with Mandrake 6.0 (I think it was a point release, 6.2 maybe). At the time I didn't have a CD burner or a proper video card to use with it, so someone on a Mandrake mailing list burnt a CD for me and sent it along with an old ATI card he had.
A number of years ago I briefly ran Arch on my work machine, back when I could still work in my own environment. After running into issues after a VBox update I finally decided maybe that wasn't such a great idea lol! That problem got resolved but it was a reminder that I didn't need an unpredictable base for something of that importance.
A number of years ago I briefly ran Arch on my work machine, back when I could still work in my own environment. After running into issues after a VBox update I finally decided maybe that wasn't such a great idea lol! That problem got resolved but it was a reminder that I didn't need an unpredictable base for something of that importance.
Re: Glorious Eggroll Interview
I had dialup back then, the cable was shitty (screwed up for hours, like often 24 of them, me on the phone with tech support getting them to reset something to do with the DHCP server in California ignoring me and therefore I was getting put off the network because I didn't have a lease for that IP etc.) I couldn't get ADSL because my shitty building was on a remote extension and couldn't get "rooftop cable" (wireless internet, available in my building) because it needed co-ax to the house and the cable company couldn't be bothered to disconnect me because the cabling was such a mess that they didn't know whose apartment was whose.
Anyway, Bobguy sent me the Mandrake 7.0 disk set. It came with everything (in those days). Every window manager you could think of, but my favourite was this Gnome/Enlightenment combination. It had the coolest window decorations and it was my first time experiencing being able to slide around virtual desktops with my mouse at screen edges. That was back when Gnome was more like a desktop framework that was a front end for other window managers. It was an interesting combination with Enlightenment.
Anyway, Bobguy sent me the Mandrake 7.0 disk set. It came with everything (in those days). Every window manager you could think of, but my favourite was this Gnome/Enlightenment combination. It had the coolest window decorations and it was my first time experiencing being able to slide around virtual desktops with my mouse at screen edges. That was back when Gnome was more like a desktop framework that was a front end for other window managers. It was an interesting combination with Enlightenment.