RedHat visit writeups

ME dugan at passwall.com
Mon Nov 18 17:45:21 PST 2002


augie said:
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> one of the funnier posts on the topic of the red hat road tour was about
> the debian road tour ;)
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> " The Debian Road Trip was also planned, but no-one could figure out how
> to start the car for a long time. After reading thousands of pages of
> engine and transmission documentation they got underway, but then were
> stalled while the driver and passengers argued if a 4-wheeled vehicle
> was really 'stable' enough. Eventually it was decided that it was OK,
> but only if it ran on steam power and didn't include an FM radio."
>
> say what you want about the validity of it all, it's still funny.

Ok. I'll comment (2)

1) :-P~~~~~~~

2) "Though there was a bit of work in getting the bus going, they were
able to upgrade to the new bus version while the bus was running with all
passengers. They also were able to better customize their bus to be faster
than others as a result of their intimate understanding of their bus. The
only busses that were able to keep up were other Debian maintained busses
with the NitroEngines and extra blowers.
Sure the RedHat busses have a nifty tuxedo-clad driver to arbitrate
direction and handling, but unfortunately he is easily confused when he is
told to do things that are too complicated or just ignores other
complicated requests, forcing the passengers to hire a mechanic or read
some of those 1000 page docs allready read by the Debian
Driver/Mechanic/Passenger/cyborg/engineer. Also, the driver may eliminate
any tricking-out of your engine the next time they tell their driver to
make a left turn."

Sure, getting started with RH may be easier over the short term, it does
not make learning the inner workings less important.

(A Debian user.)

-ME





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