Re: TurboLinux from off-list...

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Oh yeah. I managed a group of turbolinux (turbocluster, even!) boxes
for about two years. During that time, while the Mandrakes, the Red
Hats, the Debians, and the everything else was marching forward,
Turbolinux released a grand total of ZERO new updates, ZERO security
releases, ZERO new packages. Big Fat Goose Egg.

I had to update everything by hand, and everything had to be watched
very closely since with each new security problem, I could either
update by hand, or, in the case that it was too difficult to upgrade,
just pray that nobody found that little soft spot in the armor.

Oh, and then Turbolinux said, "We aren't going to support U.S.
Customers anymore. Period. But we do have some lovely japanese
versions, if you'd like it.". That was my favorite part...

Adam

Shane R. Spencer wrote:

> so damned opinionated :)
>
> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 11:57 -0900, Adam bultman wrote:
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> Oh gosh, turbolinux.
>
> Send it to the landfill. Everybody, you don't want Turbolinux.
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> Adam
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> Leif Sawyer wrote:
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>> If you want to play with TurboLinux, you might give this guy a
>> ring...
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>> ------------
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>> I am offering Turbolinux Workstation 6.0. This is Turbolinux
>> operating system, office suite, internet applications and
>> development tools.
>
>> This package comes in the original box with CDs and floppy disk
>> plus manual. This came from CompUSA and the CD in the box has not
>> been opened.
>
>> Box says it includes StarOffice, Netscape, Gimp (Photoshop-type
>> program), XPaint (graphics program), and several hundred other
>> programs.
>
>> Is this for the landfill or for you?
>
>> jimlarsen2002 'at' alaska.net ----------------
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>
>> -- Leif Sawyer -- Pi@4398680 (907) 868-0116 || lsawyer@gci.com ||
>> leif@gci.net || internic: LS2540 Network & Security Engineer --
>> General Communication Inc. Alaskan Actor:
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Received on Tue Feb 7 09:11:04 2006