Re: larry

[David Pastern <david@scsenterprises.com.au>]

Your choice.  I won't offer you any favours or help again.  It seems
that after 2 or 3 years of non posting to the lists, it's still filled
with wankers.

Dave

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 08:41 +1100, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> Below is a copy of one the two email I received personnally after 
> posting on this thread. Thank's guys to preached for your church, but if 
> it is really that goob, you don't need to get that low...
> I am glag to have a Debian system, even if it was not easy to install. 
> Now, it's working to our pleasure, and we are only to enjoy it, help 
> with translation, and why not, if I get ride of my adversty toward C++ 
> contribute to it.
> Thanks again, Libranet'guys, but you look like Jehovah witness on that 
> account
> Thierry
> 
> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 08:39 +1100, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> 
> 
> Thierry - why not consider Libranet?  The current version is 2.8.1, and
> it's getting old now, 18 months since it's release.  It doesn't support
> wireless out of the box, but you can make bootable floppy disks etc or
> even boot off the cdroms.  It ships by default with a 2.4.21 kernel, but
> that's easily updateable with the Xadminmenu administration tool (to
> 2.4.26, doesn't support any higher kernel than this, nor 2.6 kernels).  
> 
> It's a free download, 2 disks.  The forums are excellent, with a lot of
> good friendly support.  Better still, Libranet 3 is in beta testing and
> just around the corner, and it will support wireless out of the box i'm
> pretty sure - I don't have wireless but i've heard good reports from
> other beta testers.  I think you'd really like Libranet, and it's Debian
> based, 100% compatible with Debian.  And has a much better installer,
> better imho than even the new Sarge installer.  And it has Xadminmenu,
> sort of like Suses' yast but doesn't have the kitchen sink, does what
> needs to be done and nothing more.  
> 
> To be honest - it's the best distro i've used, and i've been using Linux
> since 97 and Redhat 5.2.  I've used everything from beos, to windows, to
> macs, to solaris and bsd.  I don't even have a Windows drive anymore, I
> gave that up after six months of using Libranet and finding that I just
> hadn't even booted into Windows in that time.  I think that says a
> lot.  
> 
> Anyways, consider it.
> 
> http://www.libranet.com/
> 
> Dave
> 
> PS Libranet 3 won't be free, most probably will be around US $60 but
> trust me, it's money well spent.
> 
> 
> 
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