Re: Quimby Upgrade

["Robin S. Socha" <robin@socha.net>]

* Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I'm going to upgrade Quimby to something faster, more stable and less
> BSD-ey in the not-too-distant future.  I. e., Debian on a 2xPII
> instead of OpenBSD on a P.

You should stop smoking that stuff, really. OK, OpenBSD does not do SMP,
which is bad. OTOH, is quimby really being hit that hard?

> Have I ever mentioned how un-impressed I am with OpenBSD?  No?  

No. And I think you shouldn't. It's not meant to impress. If you want to
be impressed, get Linux. I am regularly impressed by the amount of
stupidity displayed by $LINTENDO_VENDOR. Especially compared to, say,
FreeBSD ports.

> Good.

No. But it's your life. While you're waiting for all the goodies to
download (KDE integration into quimby would *really* rock), may I humbly
suggest some additions along the lines of
<http://socha.net/content/forum.php> or
<http://socha.net/content/mig.php?pageType=folder&currDir=./Gnus> and
<http://socha.net/content/links.php>?

I mean, it's all nice and dandy to have the best NR/MUA in the world,
but in order for the Windos lusers to switch, gnus.org should scream
"it's hard, but it pays". Also, having dozens of half-baked tutorials,
readmes, and screenshots scattered all over the place is, errr,
stupid. Make quimby or gnus.org the central pickup point for all that
stuff, and make it more attractive for people to submit things. Like,
people love to flaunt their stuff, and having a truckload of screenshots
with different WMs, OSes and all that is Good(tm).

Rant over, move right along...
-- 
Robin S. Socha, Bastard Consultant From Hell <http://socha.net/>
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