[clue-tech] upstart

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 09-10 00:09, dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
 
> > Linux never "converges" on anything.  Give it two years and it'll be 
> > something else handling this basic stuff (stuff that already by now 
> > should "just work" like it sure seems to on my other commercial 
> > OS's!)... but it'll take Linux another four years or more to decide to 
> > stick with something, and even then, no guarantees.
> > 
> > How do you build any kind of quality products on that moving mudslide 
> > where stuff changes without documentation all over the system on a 
> > regular basis.
> 
> Isn't this the complaint some BSDers use?

I've been away from both BSD and Linux for a while, but recently, got a
small quiet box and put OpenBSD on it. Last time I installed and did much
with a BSD was the box I was replacing: a FreeBSD 4.x system.

Not much difference between the two. But then, I'm not using it as a
desktop. I'm using it mostly to read mail and netnews and do a few other
"backoffice" things.

I didn't want to bother putting Linux on it because I just wanted to install
a *nix and move on...not tinker endlessly with it. I can understand
tinkering and hobby systems; I'm prone to that, too. Other times I just want
to get things done and just know I have a rock to go to. That "go to" rock,
for me, is BSD. There is too much of what I consider faffing about in Linux
for my tastes to use it for a system like this.

I do have an installation on my laptop of Ubuntu, and I've abandoned that
for a while and went back to (insert big sigh here) Windows for two reasons:

1. Could never seem to keep Ubuntu from overheating and having my laptop
shutdown. Irritating as ever, and didn't want to damage hardware. I took a
stab, but wasn't having much luck.

2. Hibernate wasn't working right, either.

3. Rosetta Stone won't work - installation didn't work under Wine, anyway.
When I find the time, I may go back and try to run the installation on the
Windoze partition from Wine.

4. Itunes. Insert another big sigh. Apple encrypted the drives of Ipod Nano
Gen 2, and I'm not certain there is (or ever will be) a workaround for this.
I haven't looked into this in some time. Yeah, yeah, I know that's what I
get for choosing Apple, I guess, especially when there are now plenty of
better and more feature-full mp3 players that are even often cheaper and
more user-friendly...this might be my last one.  Unless Jobs ever removes
his head from his derriere and lets an external keyboard be made for the
iPhone - in which case, I'd buy one of those almost instantly. Alas, he's
too hung up on the wonder that is the touch technology, and apparently, that
should be Good Enough For All Users, no matter what they might say. Yawn.

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