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Posted: Feb. 03 2008,16:50 QUOTE
Slackware didn't move to 2.6 until recently. Wonder if mr. Volkering also got the same.

It is certainly worrisome. Did they have any reasonable arguments, or just "because"?

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Posted: Feb. 03 2008,17:21 QUOTE
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At this point, that would benefit the interloping project at the expense of the trademarked project. These guys are still tripping over themselves trying to get their "pilot" working -- why link to something that doesn't even work?

Are you missing my point of a link back here?

Edit:  As I understand it, open source is about cooperation.  No one developer going it alone and for the purpose of the good of humanity.   If these are reasonable people, opening a dialog could benefit the world.

I agree. Moraly,  they should have contacted the trademark holder before using 'Damn Small'.  If this had have been done, it could have turned into a cooperative effort.  

I am going to further edit this.  I am not finding the correct words.

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Posted: Feb. 04 2008,01:40 QUOTE
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I have received hate mail


Only a fool or a deranged poisonous troll would bother sending Robert hate mail over which version of the kernel dsl uses.  It's unpleasant static though. I guess attracting nutters is part of the cost of dsl actually having a high profile now.

Unlike ds-bsd, which, if it doesn't hurry up and actually offer something usable, will soon be relegated to the large and growing pile of Forgotten OSs In The Sky.

Actually I wish they would get their act together. There's plenty of room for a micro bsd distro, a totally different space to linux anyway in my view and so not a competitor at all.  The more the merrier.

BSD is for a different type of user anyway.  Linux has better hardware (especially laptop) and desktop support from what I can see and has outstripped the original unices in popularity for good reasons.  And the linux kernel has been said to have surpassed the unix kernels technologically.

Re: Slackware - while it is true that until recently the stable kernel was 2.4.xx, I believe they have offered an option to use 2.6.xx instead for quite a while?
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Posted: Feb. 04 2008,02:05 QUOTE
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Yet Distrowatch has not posted an announcement of the last several releases of DSL
They have at least been listing the new DSL releases in their "latest distributions" box

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I completely agree with WDef on this subject. There are many psychotic people out there, not just in  the Linux community of course, who become evangelical with whatever bit of life they enjoy, and unfortunately become very hateful of any other bit of life that contradicts their choice in any way. You see this in political parties, religious affiliation, moral beliefs, ice cream flavors, fashion choices, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

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Posted: Feb. 04 2008,02:26 QUOTE
About hate mail:

I have gotten hate mail over the years.  Some of it can be very upsetting.  This is the advice I have been given.  Hate mail is an an honor and sign of success.  You have so distinguished yourself that people will waste their valuable time to compose and send hate mail to you.

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