Re: updating remote 2.5 to current

[Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net>]

On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 05:11:39PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote:
...
> Wow, you're a whiner too.  You don't belong here.
> 
> For those who recall, Bill Simpson was told repeatedly that upgrading
> 2.5 to 2.6 at a remote location was probably not going to work.
> 
> Then he started whining.

s/whining/suggesting improvements/

As he pointed out on the list, he tried it having been warned it might
not work, it didn't work as warned, and he accepted the cost of
shipping the system around to upgrade it.  His high crime was to
confirm to the list that it did not work, and to suggest that he might
contribute some effort on making it work at some time in the future.

> Obviously, Clifton is the kind of person who upgrades NT remotely.

As I pointed out, you seem to be singing praises of NT.  

I never touch the stuff, remotely or at the console.


> Get over yourself, Clifton and Bill.
> 
> This is free software.  Don't like it?  Send in fixes. 

I shall do so, in my copious spare time.

OS stability is a priority for me, and I like OpenBSD in that regard.  

> Bitches,
> whines, and mail like this normally go straight to /dev/null -- I'm
> being very nice to waste my time and reply.

Oh, quite.  It's most generous of you. 
  -- Clifton

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