Arch Linux Newsletter for June 04, 2008 Discussion

kensai · 2008-07-23 00:38:08

anxious wrote:

Regarding the Arch is not a Democray article - you poll people for contributions, whether monetary or technical, and have the hairy balls to write this? No soup for you people. On to Gentoo for me. Have a nice life...

It is never our intention to offend people with our articles. At the time that article was written, there were some users demanding that we updated packages almost the same day they were available upstream. And that is impossible sometimes as packages upstream sometimes tends to mess up and don't want to compile, no matter what we try, needing us to write tedious patches. Dusty decided to write that article to educate people on the way things should work, and I did, in general, agreed with his point. To take into considerations is that it was published in the contributed articles area, meaning is the opinion of someone, and everyone is entitled to his own opinions, just as you just expressed your strong opinion about us, generalizing about all of us because of an article. And one more thing, everyone can write an article for the contributed article in the newsletter expressing their points, even if they contradicts the article in question.

Sorry for any inconveniences,

Eduardo "kensai" Romero

PS: Simo so originally turned it all for the best and took advantage of the situation, congrats man.

Misfit138 · 2008-07-23 00:39:13

neotuli wrote:

When did this thread turn into release name suggestions?
Arch 2008.08 - "Hairy Balls"
or maybe agressive... Arch 2008.08 - "Come back when they drop"
or perhaps sound impressive... Arch 2008.08 - "Balls to the wall"
or ... Arch 2008.08 - "Let it all hang out"
or we could keep it simple... Arch 2008.08 - "Balls"
hmmm....

All I gotta say is, keep the ballsy names coming, dude.
Archlinux 2008.08- DIESELPOWERED
or
Archlinux 2008.08- M21 RockCrusher
or
Archlinux 2008.08- Direct Injection
or
Archlinux 2008.08- Maximum Mercury
or
Archlinux 2008.08- Deathklok
or
Archlinux 2008.08- Hatredcopter
or
Archlinux 2008.08 Aluminum Cased Super T10
That's what I'm talkin about.

crouse · 2008-07-23 04:45:25

anxious wrote:

Regarding the Arch is not a Democray article - you poll people for contributions, whether monetary or technical, and have the hairy balls to write this? No soup for you people. On to Gentoo for me. Have a nice life...

From the article:

Users that don't like the way Arch Linux is developed have two simple choices:
1. Use a different Linux distribution or operating system.
2. Develop Arch into what they want it to be.

I see after a LONG and THOUGHT out diatribe, you have choosen option #1.
I actually thought the "Arch Is Not a Democracy" article was very well put.

Allan · 2008-07-23 04:52:15

anxious wrote:

No soup for you people.

That is where you are wrong. I had soup for lunch today - chicken and sweetcorn. It was most enjoyable.

toofishes · 2008-07-23 04:57:49

Allan wrote:

anxious wrote:
No soup for you people.
That is where you are wrong. I had soup for lunch today - chicken and sweetcorn. It was most enjoyable.

I hope there weren't hairy balls in your soup.

Allan · 2008-07-23 05:29:53

toofishes wrote:

Allan wrote:
anxious wrote:
No soup for you people.
That is where you are wrong. I had soup for lunch today - chicken and sweetcorn. It was most enjoyable.
I hope there weren't hairy balls in your soup.

Now you mention it, so do I...

cactus · 2008-07-23 07:32:42

*tries to look innocent as he sneaks away from Allan's cupboard*

mrunion · 2008-07-23 13:02:59

ArchLinux 2008.08 -- Desperate Chicken
ArchLinux 2008.08 -- Fuzzy Jewels
ArchLinux 2008.08 -- Hardball

rson451 · 2008-07-23 14:25:54

I still like the idea of a segfault oriented release, maybe archlinux 2008.08 -- SIGSEGV

Flying Saxman · 2008-07-23 15:09:59

I really love the developers. I do not know any other board where the first reply to such a post would be "my balls are hairy" and that from a (ex-)developer! thumbs up guys!

foxbunny · 2008-08-15 18:26:11

+1 for Arch 2008.08 - "Balls"

diesel1 · 2008-08-21 00:02:47

neotuli wrote:

When did this thread turn into release name suggestions?
Arch 2008.08 - "Hairy Balls"
or maybe agressive... Arch 2008.08 - "Come back when they drop"
or perhaps sound impressive... Arch 2008.08 - "Balls to the wall"
or ... Arch 2008.08 - "Let it all hang out"
or we could keep it simple... Arch 2008.08 - "Balls"
hmmm....

C'mon get 733t!

3ig 3a115!

Diesel1.

kensai · 2008-08-21 02:03:33

OMG, the August Newsletter is out, the September one is about done, and we still discuss the June one? What is wrong with you people?

Allan · 2008-08-21 02:46:02

They need to run "pacman -Syu"... It pays to keep up to date with Arch!

Dusty · 2008-08-21 12:35:02

Maybe we need to start code naming our newsletter releases.

Dusty

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