Tue 2004-08-03 10:38, Bob Lawrence (3:712/610.12) wrote to David Drummond:

 BL>  That's the plan... *if* I persist with Linux. So far, Linux gives me
 BL> the shits. KDE (or Gnome, you name it) is about ten-times *less*
 BL> reliable than Win98, so at present I'm looking at running Linux native
 BL> without X11, and that's a whole new ballgame. I have to say that in my
 BL> 20 years of running all sorts of programs, I have *never* come across
 BL> anything so buggy, and that includes Win3.0! (maybe DOS4 was worse)

 BL>  X11 has a bug that starts the hard drive doing something (it just
 BL> keeps flashing the light and whirring), but the rest of Linux keeps on
 BL> working until finally *everything* crashes after about ten minutes!
 BL> You have ten minutes to save what you can and reboot, but the worst
 BL> part is that this disc-search starts all by itself while you're not
 BL> looking! Fuck'n hell! It also has a video problem where it starts
 BL> not-painting the screen, but I haven't been able to find out what sets
 BL> that one off.

Sounds like buggy hardware/drivers to me.

 BL>  So... I'm back to 1984 and a command line, and about a million
 BL> commands with *really funny names!

 BL>  For instance, Linux can LINK files or directories to other files and
 BL> directories, somewhat like a mini-network, and this is very handy. I
 BL> *know* it can do this, and I just spent almost a whole day trying to
 BL> find the fucking command. It's called ln... and I found it
 BL> accidentally in the DOSEMU documentation.

 BL>  Why the flying red fuck didn't they just call it - link?

In FreeBSD, they did.

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