Hello, I'm new here. Please, allow me some paragraphs to introduce myself and expose my concerns at time to choose a distribution. I use Linux since 2006, in that period I've tried a lot of distributions. Lately I was using Debian and Slackware. I'm not an expert but it's even not necessary to be clever to see that the KISS approach is the coherent way to go, specially with FOSS for a lot of reasons. Despite that's obvious we find lot of software and implementations that: - are just a new *modern fashioned* bloated, buggy version of the reliable old one or - add tons of features to a too spartan abandoned old software or - are the GUIed version of a command line utility with a ton of dependencies, including daemons running, adding bugs and security holes. Taking in care that popularity is the boss that's understandable *while* its implementation do not force everybody to replace real food for candies. I mean lately has appeared projects that in the name of freedom force everybody to abandon the good KISS practices. It's not necessary to mention them. Along this years I've visited your site in several occasions, now I've finally gave the step and installed Crux on my machine. I must say that I love it. Specially its BSD style init. Things like being able to just add my iptables firewall to /etc/rc.d and add to the rc.conf in the order I want justifies the use of free software. Many Thanks for making Crux possible! *** Xterm from ports, 294 version, has a bug: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1297510 I've downloaded and compiled 295 and it solved the issue. Walter
Hi Walter, On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Walter Alejandro Iglesias <eloi@roquesor.com> wrote:
Hello,
I'm new here. Please, allow me some paragraphs to introduce myself and expose my concerns at time to choose a distribution.
I use Linux since 2006, in that period I've tried a lot of distributions. Lately I was using Debian and Slackware.
I'm not an expert but it's even not necessary to be clever to see that the KISS approach is the coherent way to go, specially with FOSS for a lot of reasons. Despite that's obvious we find lot of software and implementations that:
- are just a new *modern fashioned* bloated, buggy version of the reliable old one or
- add tons of features to a too spartan abandoned old software or
- are the GUIed version of a command line utility with a ton of dependencies, including daemons running, adding bugs and security holes.
Taking in care that popularity is the boss that's understandable *while* its implementation do not force everybody to replace real food for candies. I mean lately has appeared projects that in the name of freedom force everybody to abandon the good KISS practices. It's not necessary to mention them.
Along this years I've visited your site in several occasions, now I've finally gave the step and installed Crux on my machine. I must say that I love it. Specially its BSD style init. Things like being able to just add my iptables firewall to /etc/rc.d and add to the rc.conf in the order I want justifies the use of free software.
tl;dr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyah49_Oz78
***
Xterm from ports, 294 version, has a bug:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1297510
I've downloaded and compiled 295 and it solved the issue.
http://crux.nu/Main/Bugs Thanks and welcome to CRUX. Cheers, -- Emmanuel
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