Grim
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Posts: 284
Joined: Mar. 2004 |
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Posted: Mar. 23 2004,03:57 |
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| Quote | | After messing with this POS for 3 days, I have come to the conclusion that it just doesn't live up to the hype. Issues? |
And the hype you've heard about this distro is...? The distro is primarily intended to be a 50MB "live cd". What'd you expect? Mozilla? OpenOffice? Gnome? Kde? It's safe to say you had unrealistic expectations, it's also fairly safe to say you're being an ####### about it.
| Quote | | Just because YOU don't want to go above 50mb doesn't mean others don't. There are a lot of useful programs people want. You shouldn't force them into not using them. |
If John and crew caved and branched out beyond 50Megs then the project has failed. Install the distro to hard drive and do a dpkg-restore, you can install till your heart's content. The live CD needs to remain at 50MB, while it might not be enough for you, there are plenty of people who are perfectly content with things the way they are. Personally, I don't see any need to change things just because you're not getting your way and want to cry like a big, bottle-sucking baby.
| Quote | | Whether it's for me or not isn't the issue. It's the fact that things are broken and instead of telling people how to fix them, the common response I see is "It'll be fixed in the next release". |
Unless you're having compiler issues, probably due to the use of busybox instead of gcc, I'm not running into anything that's broken. I doubt DSL'll switch out busybox for a fullblown gcc anytime soon due to size constraints. And if you don't like it, I encourage you to make your own. Set up a website (with your own money), develop the distro (on your own time), and set up a forum that answers your users questions (instantaneously, because you obviously have the time). And then when we get more users of your mindset we can direct them to your distribution that will obviously fill their required niche, and everyone will be happy. That is until you get some user on your messageboard that throws a tantrum and calls you a loser because you didn't include vlc in your distribution.
| Quote | | Guys, if you're gonna put something like this out, make sure it works before you do. Read your forums...you'll find out what people want. |
There's nothing wrong with DSL, it works as advertised. Fullblown desktop and plenty of apps to go with it. You didn't get exactly what you wanted on your timetable, boo-ing-hoo.
I hate to be like this, but you're being anything but diplomatic about this. It seems to me like you downloaded an iso, burnt it to disk, tried it out and it wasn't exactly what you wanted, so you fell in the floor like a two-year-old in a department store kicking and screaming until you got your way. Only this time it doesn't look like the little screaming fit is going to work.
I do have a suggestion for you though, why don't you be a nice man and email John and offer to pay him in order to get the functionality you want added to the CD. If he accepts your offer, you get what you want and DSL get's a little more funding and you don't come off sounding like a little brat complaining about he didn't get the exact shade of blue transformer he wanted for his birthday.
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