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Redhat and Linux is still crap after all these years...

Bill Storey

2005-10-02, 8:46 pm

In case you want to spend your hard earned money on an Operating System like
Linux, which I think is still a piece of crap-in-a-box after all these
years, here is my experience with it:

I purchased Redhat Professional Workstation for close to $100. Ever since I
installed it, I was getting a 'security' upgrade about once every two weeks.
Now there is nothing wrong with that, mind you. But, last week I was
notified that there was yet another security upgrade to install so I went
ahead and installed it. I rebooted, and something happened because the
computer just hung there. Pushed the re-set button, and immediately I
noticed upon startup that Grub was hosed. I couldn't start XP either. The
boot sector was damaged. This is it. No more Linux for me. It's a piece of
shit fellows. I you have time to kill, don't have a girlfriend, your mother
and father hate you, you hate to do homework, don't like to take showers,
then Linux is definately for you. For all the rest, I've warned you.

In case you decide to flame me for what I had to say, just eat shit. I won't
be back to read your bullshit anyway because frankly, I don't really give a
damn.

Jean-David Beyer

2005-10-03, 2:46 am

Bill Storey wrote:
> In case you want to spend your hard earned money on an Operating System like
> Linux, which I think is still a piece of crap-in-a-box after all these
> years,

I am so disappointed that you could not figure out how to install and
properly configure a Linux distribution.

> here is my experience with it:
>
> I purchased Redhat Professional Workstation for close to $100.

I wonder what you are talking about. At the moment, the workstation product
is Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS that sells for $179 for the Basic Edition and
$299 for the Standard Edition. Are you possibly talking about some
out-of-date obsolete product?

> Ever since I
> installed it, I was getting a 'security' upgrade about once every two weeks.
> Now there is nothing wrong with that, mind you. But, last week I was
> notified that there was yet another security upgrade to install so I went
> ahead and installed it. I rebooted, and something happened because the
> computer just hung there. Pushed the re-set button, and immediately I
> noticed upon startup that Grub was hosed. I couldn't start XP either. The
> boot sector was damaged.

Sounds like a hardware problem to me. I have been running Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 3 for almost two years, and get frequent security updates and have now
received 6 major upgrades. I had a problem with one of them that I fixed
with a tiny patch, but they made an official fix by the very next day. I got
the patch first by e-mail as soon as I notified them. Although it has never
crashed, I have had to reboot it whenever the OS kernel is upgraded, but
that is about it. I run it 24/7 except when the power goes off for over an
hour, which is about all my UPS can manage.

> This is it. No more Linux for me.

I guess we will all suffer until our dieing days from your absence. It does
seem, though, that you are jumping to conclusions. If Red Hat Linux were
that bad, they would have gone out of business long ago, and we would be
seeing serious complaints, adequately described so help could be offered.
And we do not. We get someone whose e-mail address is given as aol.com, but
the headers say he is on com!tornado.ohiordc.rr.com and using Microsoft
Outlook Express to post his messages.

> It's a piece of
> shit fellows. I you have time to kill, don't have a girlfriend, your mother
> and father hate you, you hate to do homework, don't like to take showers,
> then Linux is definately for you. For all the rest, I've warned you.
>
> In case you decide to flame me for what I had to say, just eat shit. I won't
> be back to read your bullshit anyway because frankly, I don't really give a
> damn.
>
>
It is rude to post to a newsgroup you do not read. I preferred your
repressed hostility to your outwardly displayed kind. Why not go back to
kicking your dog? Off your meds?

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Sandgroper

2005-10-03, 7:46 am

"Bill Storey" <b_store11@aol.com> wrote in message
news:0q_%e.56495$uD6.12045@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com...
> In case you want to spend your hard earned money on an Operating System
like
> Linux, which I think is still a piece of crap-in-a-box after all these
> years, here is my experience with it:
>
> I purchased Redhat Professional Workstation for close to $100. Ever since
I
> installed it, I was getting a 'security' upgrade about once every two
weeks.
> Now there is nothing wrong with that, mind you. But, last week I was
> notified that there was yet another security upgrade to install so I went
> ahead and installed it. I rebooted, and something happened because the
> computer just hung there. Pushed the re-set button, and immediately I
> noticed upon startup that Grub was hosed. I couldn't start XP either. The
> boot sector was damaged. This is it. No more Linux for me. It's a piece of
> shit fellows. I you have time to kill, don't have a girlfriend, your
mother
> and father hate you, you hate to do homework, don't like to take showers,
> then Linux is definately for you. For all the rest, I've warned you.
>
> In case you decide to flame me for what I had to say, just eat shit. I
won't
> be back to read your bullshit anyway because frankly, I don't really give
a
> damn.

The best thing for you to do is uninstall RH , pack all the CDs up in it's
original box and take it back to where you brought it and give it back to
them and tell them that you are too STUPID , too IGNORANT and too LAZY to
be able to use a real operating system.

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RoT

2005-10-03, 5:52 pm

Sandgroper wrote

>
> "Bill Storey" <b_store11@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:0q_%e.56495$uD6.12045@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com...
> like
> I
> weeks.
> mother
> won't
> a
>
> The best thing for you to do is uninstall RH , pack all the CDs up in it's
> original box and take it back to where you brought it and give it back to
> them and tell them that you are too STUPID , too IGNORANT and too LAZY to
> be able to use a real operating system.
>
>

well said sir
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RoT

starvinmarvin

2005-10-03, 5:52 pm

"RoT" <RoT@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:19475933.WsB8inBZI3@245t.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Sandgroper wrote
>
<snip much crap>

Biull Storey has posted lots of anti-Linux crap in various newsgroups...I
think he works for SUN or Microsoft.

Ivan Marsh

2005-10-03, 5:52 pm

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 23:53:32 +0000, Bill Storey wrote:

> In case you want to spend your hard earned money on an Operating System
> like Linux, which I think is still a piece of crap-in-a-box after all
> these years, here is my experience with it:
>
> I purchased Redhat Professional Workstation for close to $100. Ever
> since I installed it, I was getting a 'security' upgrade about once
> every two weeks. Now there is nothing wrong with that, mind you. But,
> last week I was notified that there was yet another security upgrade to
> install so I went ahead and installed it. I rebooted, and something
> happened because the computer just hung there. Pushed the re-set button,
> and immediately I noticed upon startup that Grub was hosed. I couldn't
> start XP either. The boot sector was damaged. This is it. No more Linux
> for me. It's a piece of shit fellows. I you have time to kill, don't
> have a girlfriend, your mother and father hate you, you hate to do
> homework, don't like to take showers, then Linux is definately for you.
> For all the rest, I've warned you.
>
> In case you decide to flame me for what I had to say, just eat shit. I
> won't be back to read your bullshit anyway because frankly, I don't
> really give a damn.

Then why post it you FUD spreading, troll, moron?

BTW: RH Professional Workstation is a RH9 distro and has been discontinued
for over a year so after your initial install you did not get notification
of a security upgrade last week.

If you're going to be a troll at least try to be a believable one.

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