[ILUG] Distribution wars

[Liam Bedford]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 11:17:30AM +0100, Brian O'Donoghue came forth with:
> > Nah the Slackware users will be handloaders so they will have proper
> > sniping equipment a few kilometres away. All that the RPM heads would
> > see would be these strange red spotches on their chests that vaguely
> > resemble the redhat logo. :-) They might even mistake them for an
> > automatic feature upgrade for their combat gear.
> >
> > Regards...jmcc
> 
> I'd imagine the only way the RPMers could win would be to suprise attack the
> Slackers as they laughed themselves silly on the ground @ the total
> uselessness of Red-Hat,  but then again the amount of time it would take
> Red-Hat to get the GUI running to get the Slackers coupled with unnecessary
> resources used in said GUI would probably be so hilarious that your average
> Slacker would be incapable of doing anything other then laughing and
> sneering uncontrolably :D .
> 

and the debian'ers would be very quickly running around with basic guns the
installer gave them, and apt-get installing the latest greatest (after the
obligatory apt-get dist-upgrade unstable && apt-get upgrade, and clearing
out the cruft).

L.
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