#1 2015-12-30 16:20:28
Ian Murdock, creator of the operating system running this site, died today. Ian was 42. Most news reports at this point are short on detail.
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#2 2015-12-30 19:53:01
Did you communicate with him?
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#3 2015-12-30 20:12:40
Fuck. I've been a Linux geek since 99.
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#4 2015-12-30 21:10:49
Dmtdust wrote:
Did you communicate with him?
Nope, Ian was kid but I did admire his passion and determination to derail mickeysoft's fuck the consumer, maximize earnings approach to software development.
My linux distro history: Slackware 1994, SUSE 1997, Red Hat 2003, Ubuntu 2006+.
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#5 2015-12-30 21:21:25
Sadly, it looks like he may have topped himself. Seems he got into a row with the police the other night and he claims he was badly abused (including a woman police officer taking off his pants). More here...
http://pastebin.com/yk8bgru5
https://web.archive.org/web/20151229122 … m/imurdock
http://www.zdnet.com/article/debian-lin … e-unknown/
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#7 2016-01-01 21:02:51
Over at Metafilter people were posting,
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In response to the post reporting the news.
What does . represent in relation to Debian?
(Ps. I'm a recent Mint adopter, I've been into Red Hat for quite some time. Never paid much attention to debian until recently).
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#8 2016-01-02 00:13:13
Platymingo wrote:
Over at Metafilter people were posting,
.
In response to the post reporting the news.
What does . represent in relation to Debian?
(Ps. I'm a recent Mint adopter, I've been into Red Hat for quite some time. Never paid much attention to debian until recently).
Dunno. A reference to dot files being hidden by default when doing a ls?
I started out as SuSE 6.22, moved over to Red Hat then Fedora. Migrated to Arch in 09 and ultimately landed in Mint land via Ubuntu. I've a small netbook on which I run BunsenLabs (previously Crunchbang).
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#9 2016-01-02 11:23:07
I was forced to work with AIX in 1993-1994, including development in the Korn Shell and the C Shell.
I fucking hate any flavor of UNIX, I hated it even worse when they added the "Windows like" front end to it. UNIX is like religion and your penis. It's something to take out and play with occasionally, but has no relevance for people that are just looking to get something done on a computer.
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#10 2016-01-02 16:36:56
Baywolfe wrote:
I was forced to work with AIX in 1993-1994, including development in the Korn Shell and the C Shell.
I fucking hate any flavor of UNIX, I hated it even worse when they added the "Windows like" front end to it. UNIX is like religion and your penis. It's something to take out and play with occasionally, but has no relevance for people that are just looking to get something done on a computer.
Well said.
At the same time I wonder why I spent years on end trying to teach family members PC's when I should have just gotten them a Mac and made my life a lot easier.
Computers are like cars:
1. Some people like the nitty gritty and they should use UX and drive a full sized van and have a classic something in the garage which is cool but not good for much.
2. Some people like getting day to day shit done but still be able to do a lot of the nitty gritty, they should have a PC, drive a Pickup and a sports car.
3. Some people want everything done for them and should only be allowed to use a Mac, they should also drive a Minivan and own a mid-tier BMW/MBZ/Lexus SUV.
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#12 2016-01-03 01:03:48
I'm no Linux fanboy, I've nothing particular against MS. I find Linux suits my tastes. I can do everything I need to and I rather like the Bash shell.
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