has to be said
If a Gentoo hijacking does eventually succeed then we are talking about this installation experiment ranking up there with the pitch drop experiment in duration to finish.
Hundreds of people are trying to install Arch Linux on a machine at the same time in the same terminal, using a voting system to decide the next keypress. It's horrifically frustrating watching an attempt to run makefs hijacked with a slowly typed rm -rf / command; the filesystem-wiping order thwarted at the last moment by …
I remember running #emerge -e world on my last but two (or was it three) laptop. 1200 odd packages took nearly a week to chomp through. The current machine is running the same original install of the next one and munches through LibreOffice in about an hour, whilst I play games, browse and try to ignore the burning sensation and the ticking sound from the 'leccy meter.
Trying to install Arch keystroke by keystroke takes me back to my first Gentoo install in 2002. For reference I recently got wifeys current machine up and running in about an hour with Arch and a full install of KDE. Cracking distro but a distributed install could take a while.
Do they eat at a gourmet restaurant on a winefarm
Do they eat at a gourmet restaurant on a winefarm
No, they're just picky where they dig
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From the referenced page:
"if an operand resolves to the root directory, rm shall write a diagnostic message to standard error and do nothing more with such operands"
Which just goes to show that The Open Group have no sense of humour. Or maybe they do - perhaps they are just trolling people to go an test out if their system has a POSIX-compliant rm. I for one am certainly gullible enough to give it a go. Hold on...
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Take the simple concept of a Linux os and have 47 different flavours of it.
Argue endlessly which is the best and have a hugely inconsistent array of options so that every one looks different.
Ensure most drivers don't work very well or preferably don't exist at all.
Spend more time compiling it and installing it and tweaking it than you do actually using it.
Ensure you have a smug disposition about you having created an unusable, unique mess of an os build which took far longer to achieve than it should have.
Decry anone who points out its an unusable mess that is missing key features and many useful apps.
Charge twice as much for these 'skills'.
Retire and play with vi.