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[chronicfreetime]

I just tried to install SP2 for XP on the Windows box I use at home. Halfway through the process, I get an error message whining about a missing file. I verify that the original cab contains a compressed version of said file. I look in the directory where the installer unpacked itself; same file there too. I try to uncompress it with extract.

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[kiwitayro]

definitely check out linux. redhat and debian are the best, i hear.

i run debian on my laptop (a 5 year old mac) and it's just peachy. even jlynn, josiah's 8 year old likes debian beter than windows. she just runs windows for games. :)

feel free to email me or wmjosiah for more info or to get disks mailed to you, etc.

or you could come visit! ;)

[chronicfreetime]

I use Debian on multiple servers and routing devices. I have just always found X Windows to be unpleasantly kludgy.

[roadriverrail]

X Windows to be unpleasantly kludgy

The continued use of any X impementation on desktop is itself quite the kludge, so that's no shock.

[roadriverrail]

Oh..I have Fedora Core disks I could give you on Friday. I don't need them.

[chronicfreetime]

No thanks, I could easily burn a set if I want. I've already had some of my time wasted by the FC2 installer; I think I'll just stick with Debian. If Google has any kind of standard I might try to follow that. (zorbathut said something about their build system always linking statically, so I'm guessing not.)

[roadriverrail]

Always linking statically? For everything? Is there a reason for that?

[chronicfreetime]

It makes it easier to use machines with wildly different versions of libc as a single cluster.

[roadriverrail]

I guess it would, too. I guess I figured that most people would be doing the clusters the way that I'm going to do mine- as homogenous as humanly possible.

Something about clustering with wildly different versions of libc seems unsettling to me.