CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I visited my quiet little Linux box for the first time since late October this evening. It crunched 199 F@h units since then. I decided to look for updates for my distribution through Mandrake's own updater. At first, I selected all the 19 files needed to be upgraded. Quite predictably, since it's Linux let's not forget it, it failed due to lame dependancy reasons (the bastard who created ARTS should be beaten to death solely for the dependencies of his creation. ARTS ALWAYS fails to install due to damn weird depandancies). On my second try, I only selected a few files at once, starting with libarts and kdelibs. Slowly but surely, I ended up upgrading all 19 files succesfully.
Since I'm mainly a Winblows user, I decided that my system should feel better after a restart just to help Linux digest all the upgrades. This was a mistake...
Now KDE no longer launches. I get a mistake from Xfree86 telling me that it doesn't find xxxx file in some xxxx directory. I messed a bit here and a bit there and after an hour of fruitless efforts, I decided to simply start the (slower) F@h client from the bash prompt and finish the unit it was then processing. Once the unit is completed, Linux and its bugs/mysteries/annoyances can all go to HELL! F**k Mandrake, F**k Linux, F**k KDE. OUT OF MY HOUSE! Linux is still, in 2002, less usable than even Windows 3.1 was in the early nineties. Sure it looks better, but you can't install a damn thing related to the OS without either end up with a failure or screwing your entire installation. Not even using my distributor's own upgrading tool!
To hell with it, I'm going back to the dark side (Windows). I'm all for an fighting the 400lbs Gorilla with alternative OSes, AS LONG AS THEY WORK AT LEAST HALF DECENTLY! Linux is only ok when you leave it alone after you finish the original installation. Yeah yeah yeah, I read that article too, but it isn't an excuse for the lamentable un-upgradability that plagues that OS since day one. If you can't find a way to do it right, then just don't bother doing it, period. Call me when there something else usable for a workstation/desktop somewhere. Something with .exe installer that gets the job done with a simple double-clic. BeOS did it and there wasn't one-tenth of the people working on it than there is on Linux.
Since I'm mainly a Winblows user, I decided that my system should feel better after a restart just to help Linux digest all the upgrades. This was a mistake...
Now KDE no longer launches. I get a mistake from Xfree86 telling me that it doesn't find xxxx file in some xxxx directory. I messed a bit here and a bit there and after an hour of fruitless efforts, I decided to simply start the (slower) F@h client from the bash prompt and finish the unit it was then processing. Once the unit is completed, Linux and its bugs/mysteries/annoyances can all go to HELL! F**k Mandrake, F**k Linux, F**k KDE. OUT OF MY HOUSE! Linux is still, in 2002, less usable than even Windows 3.1 was in the early nineties. Sure it looks better, but you can't install a damn thing related to the OS without either end up with a failure or screwing your entire installation. Not even using my distributor's own upgrading tool!
To hell with it, I'm going back to the dark side (Windows). I'm all for an fighting the 400lbs Gorilla with alternative OSes, AS LONG AS THEY WORK AT LEAST HALF DECENTLY! Linux is only ok when you leave it alone after you finish the original installation. Yeah yeah yeah, I read that article too, but it isn't an excuse for the lamentable un-upgradability that plagues that OS since day one. If you can't find a way to do it right, then just don't bother doing it, period. Call me when there something else usable for a workstation/desktop somewhere. Something with .exe installer that gets the job done with a simple double-clic. BeOS did it and there wasn't one-tenth of the people working on it than there is on Linux.
