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:Some People Don't Know When to Leave Well Enough Alone
Some People Don't Know When to Leave Well Enough Alone
Nov 28, 2009, 11 :04 UTC (16 Talkback[s]) (6792 reads)

[ Thanks to Caitlyn Martin for this link. ]

"I am hounded, week in and week out, including three comments on DistroWatch this week, about my "refusal" to run Puppy Linux and my "crazy review". It never stops, it continues in e-mail and on every Linux forum where I write. Why are the Puppy Linux community members so obsessed with me? Here is the only reason I can think of:

"A couple of years back I wrote a very short piece for the old O'Reilly Linux DevCenter blogs stating that Puppy Linux 2.17 (the current version at the time) wouldn't boot on my systems except for one ancient desktop and that made it impossible for me to give it a fair review. The Puppy Linux community got all bent out of shape and it escalated from there, into intimidation and threats, including what many interpreted as a death threat"

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Caitlyn obviously provided this link to  ...   This is not news/self serving   
Kurt
Nov 28, 2009, 14:40:20
 
> A couple of years back ... Puppy Linux ...   Yadda, yadda   
Neko Nata
Nov 28, 2009, 15:48:27
 
> Caitlyn obviously provided this link t ...   Re: This is not news/self serving   
Jeff Cobb
Nov 28, 2009, 20:47:30
 
> > Caitlyn obviously provided this link ...   Re: Re: This is not news/self serving   
Carla Schroder
Nov 28, 2009, 21:32:51
 
> Now, what does "to Leave Well Enough A ...   Re: Yadda, yadda   
Wodin
Nov 28, 2009, 22:23:27
 
What I find amazing about these comments ...   What I find amazing   
Caitlyn Martin
Nov 28, 2009, 23:05:45
 
> > > Caitlyn obviously provided this li ...   Re: Re: Re: This is not news/self serving   
Jeff Cobb
Nov 28, 2009, 23:23:24
 
...it is a mistake to pain whole segment ...   Historically...   
Jeff Cobb
Nov 28, 2009, 23:48:51
 
@Jeff:  If you had bothered to read the  ...   If you had bothered to read...   
Caitlyn Martin
Nov 29, 2009, 01:32:50
 
Carla So sorry, didn't mean to offen ...   This is not news/self serving   
Kurt
Nov 29, 2009, 06:18:50
 
Never did I say that what is happening w ...   Re: If you had bothered to read...   
not jeff
Nov 29, 2009, 07:16:07
 
looks like you made some enemies a coupl ...   Enemies   
Jim C
Nov 29, 2009, 15:24:45
 
> > Now, what does "to Leave Well Enough ...   Re: Re: Yadda, yadda   
Neko Nata
Nov 29, 2009, 23:13:24
 
> For this I have received one death thr ...   Re: What I find amazing   
Neko Nata
Nov 29, 2009, 23:36:06
 
>> Never did I say that what is happenin ...   Re: Re: If you had bothered to read...   
Rainer Weikusat
Nov 30, 2009, 12:48:03
 
> @Jeff:  If you had bothered to read th ...   Re: If you had bothered to read...   
Jeff Cobb
Nov 30, 2009, 17:31:18
 
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