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I've used yum, apt-get and pacman. I find pacman's utility and package format MUCH easier, faster and more flexible (AUR + ABS ftw) !linux
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@darwinsurvivor Think you'd be willing to make a quick/not-so-quick writeup on pacman? http://bit.ly/dxfUeQ
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@eightyeight We won't know till 9:00 tonight when his wget script grabs the day's news for him !ubuntu @rms
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@darwinsurvivor he's that technically advanced? i thought they were hand-delivered on acid-free #gnu letterhead. :) @rms !ubuntu
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@eightyeight No, he uses lenses to focus the sun onto rock, making a quaint storage medium.
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@dandart they are however, completely Free lenses
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@bioselement I don't know any more than is already very well explained on the wiki.
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@bioselement I guess the only thing I'd add is that w/ AUR + ABS, it pretty much blows PPA out of the water.
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@dandart: aren't the rocks trademarked by mother nature?
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@bioselement tried to add a bit of a summary to the site you posted, but i can't login (account inactive)
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@eightyeight He won't use CDs because they're trademarked by Philips and/or Sony. He won't use an x86 for sure!
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@robconnolly He makes them himself from scratch from ovens and sand, and it helps him see his code.
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@dandart: s/are/and/
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@eightyeight I don't know, I made it up. I was provoked by mother nature.
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@dandart: ahh. heh. touche
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@robconnolly Yes. I don't know many that are, copyrights indeed protect freedom, but BDs are bad in his eyes, afaik.
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@eightyeight patents are baadd, mmm kay?
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@darwinsurvivor Ahh bugger, I approved it and disabled email validation till I find what's up >.>
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@dandart BD's???
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@robconnolly Blu-ray discs? Sorry, I forgot this term wasn't in common usage until about 2012-13
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@darwinsurvivor I love pacman and arch.
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@dandart I don't think there's anything inherently bad about the blu-ray technology, it's probably just that most are drmed to hell.
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@robconnolly it's mainly the implementation and video "content management" rather than the actual disc.
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@eightyeight interesting. so anyone with a phone with a camera and the tech can add you quickly and easily! clever things those.
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@robconnolly bad stuff! I like to keep free when I can - but I won't go out of my way for it if I really need the non free e.g. flash
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@robconnolly though I hate flash! and java, for some reason.
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@eightyeight not really familiar with that sort of stuff, so I wouldn't know the implications!
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@dandart yeah I really wish I didn't need flash. java isn't so bad, I have to use it for work, I'd rather use python or C/C++ though!
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@dandart the most annoying thing about java is the lack of operator overloading!
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@robconnolly I just think it's slow! and I don't like VMs for programs (eg java, c#), I just love PHP!
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@dandart yeah it is slow. Technically all interpreted languages use a VM of some kind. I prefer Python over PHP - PHP get's too messy!
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@robconnolly Of course Python doesn't LET you mess it up! Hey, I want SOME freedom... heh.
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@dandart well python doesn't let you mix mark up and code, because it wasn't designed primarily as a web language. In py: 'import freedom'
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@robconnolly Yes, PHP is nice cos I can just stick it in wherever I want! Dammit. import bacon
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@robconnolly import export sourceforge?
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@dandart ???
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@darwinsurvivor no package manager I've used beats portage IMO - though it can be a wee but slow at times... !Linux
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@greenrd I've heard it mentioned, but not tried it yet... Isn't it only a rewrite of emerge, the frontend to portage?
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@darwinsurvivor Turns out the bug was with phpBB....a bug they've known since '05. So I've moved over to Drupal http://colonylinux.com/forum
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