From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35637 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robin S. Socha" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Quimby Upgrade Date: 04 Apr 2001 20:35:29 +0200 Organization: Trial By Combat Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171349 4177 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:35:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:35:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 7346 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 2001 18:33:22 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7341 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2001 18:33:21 -0000 Original-Received: from dialin-2-05.bl.trmd.net (HELO radioactive.socha.net) (qmailr@212.84.201.5) by gnus.org with SMTP; 4 Apr 2001 18:33:21 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 14943 invoked by uid 500); 4 Apr 2001 18:35:31 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-URL: X-MSMail-Priority: X5O!P%@AP[4PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* X-Face: #Z}0zkbqU,m`+S)^0R[.23L-o>U{UQ|(DvIqu^Bjw:po_g9;4JnT9tbn;QX$ga/LYS In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "04 Apr 2001 18:30:06 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) XEmacs/21.2 (Urania) Original-Lines: 40 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35637 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35637 * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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 or and ? 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 Note to experienced users: Please don't encourage anti-support behavior. Don't try to answer questions from users who don't provide the necessary information. Guessing what they did is an incredible waste of time. (DJB)