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Some People Don’t Know When to Leave Well Enough Alone

[ Thanks to Caitlyn Martin for this link.
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“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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