Re: A question for the list:
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 18:25:53 -0600, Boyd wrote in message
<[🔎] 201011071826.00774.bss@iguanasuicide.net>:
> On Sunday 07 November 2010 18:16:39 Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 02:35:48 -0600, Boyd wrote in message
> > <[🔎] 201011070235.48667.bss@iguanasuicide.net>:
> > > In <[🔎] 20101106225444.0fb2698f@a45.fmb.no>, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > > >On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:57:28 -0500, John wrote in message
> > > ><[🔎] 87lj57y4x3.fsf@thumper.dhh.gt.org>:
> > > >> Arnt Karlsen writes:
> > > >> > ..IME, it's "Unstable", it and "Experimental" doesn't quite
> > > >> > live up to the expectations of adrenaline kicks you want
> > > >> > from these PR'y buzzwords. ;o)
> > > >>
> > > >> Don't try to install Experimental, though. It is not intended
> > > >> to be a complete distribution: just an archive for experimental
> > > >> packages.
> > > >
> > > >..why not? Progress takes _somebody_ pushing forward, and,
> > > >Chuck Yeager made it thru ok in his Experimental rides. ;o)
> > >
> > > What you can't do is install experimental. That would be roughly
> > > equivalent trying to get airborne with just a set of experimental
> > > wings and control services but no fuselage or instruments.
> >
> > ..yup, works quite well since 1903. ;o)
>
> Fsckin' flying-wing designs, I figured someone would reference them.
..those came later, Horten, Lippisch 'n Northrop. ;o)
> I mean it was like trying to get airborne without some part of the
> plane that is absolutely required.
..no part of the plane is "absolutely required", I've gotten
airborne gaining a wee bit of altitude without an aircraft,
all it took was a "wee" gust, but that stunt was a fair bit
more accidental than experimental, I was just leaning on the
wind waving arms like a parachute jumper, and had enough sense
and airmanship to just grab and hang onto the fence. ;o)
> (Really, some required parts of Debian are simply missing from
> experimental, so it isn't possible to install *just* experimental.)
..well, we do have the 2.6.36 kernel in place in "Experimental",
and X and the radeon driver... what else do we need to fly? ;o)
..and the only danger in my "Sid + Experimental" combination,
would have to come from the somewhat cocky can-do troll
attitude it helps build. ;o)
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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