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Distribution quotes of the week
After 3 days of constant phone calls my brother-in-law told me about the
forums and I started directing my questions there. When 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
was released I performed my first installation but I couldn’t get the sound
to work. Searching the forums taught me all sorts of cool linuxy stuff like
recompiling alsa and blacklisting modules even applying a patch to the
kernel. In the end, it turned out that you have to plug the speakers into
the green hole to hear anything.
-- Ubuntu
forum's "nothingspecial"
One day, I'm going to create something called Stone Age Linux. It'll be
awesome. Nobody will want to use it because it will be so uncool and so
slow paced it'll make every enterprise distro look cutting edge.
-- Jon
Masters
Looks like the bloodbath begins. I too am in favor of killing cvs.
-- Anthony G. Basile (Gentoo evaluates git)(Log in to post comments)
Distribution quotes of the week Posted May 24, 2012 14:30 UTC (Thu) by kjp (subscriber, #39639) [Link]
re: portage/git I think this is a much funnier: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/77227
so subtle!
Distribution quotes of the week Posted May 24, 2012 19:35 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
I think Gentoo should consider tarballs and patches. It has worked for Linus. Can't err with that.
Distribution quotes of the week Posted May 24, 2012 21:21 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link]
Even funnier: many people took this as a serious post.
Distribution quotes of the week Posted May 25, 2012 10:41 UTC (Fri) by arief (guest, #58729) [Link]
Is it just me that RotFL'd quite hard at the green hole thingy comment? :-D
*If yes, then LWN seriously needs more regular people as subscriber
Distribution quotes of the week Posted May 25, 2012 16:22 UTC (Fri) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205) [Link]
I laughed, but only because I've experienced that story before.
Do I count as "regular"?
Distribution quotes of the week Posted May 25, 2012 22:50 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
You're a subscriber.
So, no.
Distribution quotes of the week Posted May 28, 2012 12:59 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
I experienced it just yesterday, with my father phoning up worried that he'd blown his new machine up because he plugged in his headphones and the speakers went dead and so did the headphones.
Fixing it took ten seconds. The headphones had been plugged into the (very hard to see) line-in jack round the back of the machine. The plug on the front prominently labelled with a pair of headphones was unoccupied... :)
Distribution quotes of the week Posted May 28, 2012 13:13 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] At least you did not recompile ALSA.This same story happens all the time to me with my current volume control which people accidentally lower all the time. I still have not recompiled anything either but just out of laziness.
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