Flaming debian-kde
For an exampe how people never get tired of flamimg and trolling on the same topics over and over again, check this thread on the debian-kde mailing list.
It all started with the somewhat innocent question if KDE 3.4 will hit SID anytime soon. The unavoidable followed soon enough: “And where’s x.org?” “Can sarge be considered vaporware?” “Why can’t Debian if Ubuntu can?” “So get lost and use ubuntu” “Who needs x.org anyway?” “Some ppl have the latest on-board graphics only supported by x.org!” “Hell, Ubuntu is _based_ on Debian, Debian-devs are doing the majority of work here!” “Debian-devs are arrogant pseudo-elite anyway.” “Libranet! and I paid for it!” “Then what are you doing on this list anyway?” “Btw, how do debian-devs get their money?”
I guess you get the picture. Even though most points are valid from the appropriate perspective, this all has been argued and reasoned before. Anyhow, it’s pretty hard not to reply to this thread, it looks so much fun.. then again, I really don’t consider myself addressed by any of the statements and generally I refuse feeding trolls.
April 13th, 2005 at 12:18
Question… I was checking out your screenshots and I noticed those neat gkrellm like utilities on the north side of your desktop. They display disk, proc …etc. If you could let me know that would be great.
Interestingly enough I myself am saving up for a powerbook. Love the site. keep it going.
April 13th, 2005 at 17:29
For system monitoring with KDE I use a simple theme I created for superkaramba. If you like to have more info about my theme, just let me know.
Get youself a PowerBook, I really like to use it. Maybe you can get more power, better linux compatibility, less weight and even smaller footprint with an IBM X-series or other wintel subnotebooks, but then again, it’s no PPC and I really wanted to have a MAC and OS X.