Some People Don't Know When To Leave Well Enough Alone
Submitted by srlinuxx on Fri, 11/20/2009 - 18:02
I've had enough of the hatred spewed at me from the Puppy Linux forums and Puppy Linux users everywhere. I am hounded, week in and week out, including three comments on DistroWatch this week, about my "refusal" to run Puppy Linux and my "crazy review". It never stops, it continues in e-mail and on every Linux forum where I write. Why are the Puppy Linux community members so obsessed with me? Here is the only reason I can think of:
A couple of years back I wrote a very short piece for the old O'Reilly Linux DevCenter blogs stating that Puppy Linux 2.17 (the current version at the time) wouldn't boot on my systems except for one ancient desktop and that made it impossible for me to give it a fair review. The Puppy Linux community got all bent out of shape and it escalated from there, into intimidation and threats, including what many interpreted as a death threat in the comments section of DistroWatch Weekly. Puppy Linux community members also tried to get my writing pulled from O'Reilly. My editor at the time saw the post in question as threatening and backed me up.
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I think she needs some puppy love...
Puppy is sudo and single core only ? Not for Catlyn Martin ?
Ms Martin sells print and of course create headlines that got people excited on 'only works on ancient computers'? But she gets the limelight and the publicity for more reviews. She is famous for feuding and getting publicity with Beranger as opponent.
But Barry never pointed out that security of sudo distro is protected by livecd(without multisession). You can not be attacked by hackers(no hdd to be hacked), which Ms Martin's review failed to point out. One must understand security for internet is the browser. Security for intranet is the root privilege. Single user has no intranet connection to any peer.
Puppy was not for multicored cpu(nor 64 bit and other platforms), and is the same as Microsoft windows. Windows always had a version for multicored cpu other than single cored cpu version.
Death threat only made Ms Martin more famous and command more value on her reviews. Just point out the fact that she did not know the intent of puppy distro.
Death Threats...
Hmmm, in that case.. srlinuxx, I kill you! heh heh Mo Money!
re: Death Threats...
thank you very much.
Puppy also have Xorg problems ? Maybe i686/i386 logic ?
Linux distros have over the years bypassed xinit compatibility problems of video drivers by staying with VGA but extends resolution and color by xvesa 791/2. Everything works and boots fine.
Today, RHEL(i386) and Austrumi(i686) uses Xorg v1.3 i386. Avoiding Xorg v7.5 i686 helped to display many video cards and apps layout and rendering requirements.
Woof is still using Xorg 7.5 but going back to Xvesa compatible parts. While Woof is in development, changes of video drivers may depend on the understanding of mixed i386 and i686 instruction sets. Kernels maybe i686, apps and driver may still work with i386(instruction subset) only, to avoid many traps of i686 instruction set being buggy in i386 codes? It has to be logical. i386 works in i686, but i686(too many cpu instructions) does not work in i386 codes.
Hope this helps, or look at Austrumi or RHEL logic.
Footnote:
Puppy had changed from Mandrake 9.2 to Vector Linux(i486 32 bit with FPU) then to Slackware(i386 16/32 bit) over the years. Now wolf can be any distro based binary codes(even Ubuntu i686 branch prediction and write backs) from any repository, but its still in development.