Linux choses Iowan as final player for kickball game
Via Doc we learn of ee_geek, who happily reports that Linux is In! Apparently he’s won the right to use Linux wherever he wants in his company now, provided he cares for the machines. Well, bravo little buddy! I’m sure you’re saving your company, what, a hundred bucks per machine? Nice!
Six days later (thanks to Chap for pointing this out), something goes wrong:
I did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my Debian box last week. Everything went ok, except that my sound quit working. I was not very happy about it. After doing some investigation, what I think happened was the dist-upgrade slipped alsa in to replace oss. That is fine by me, as long as it works, which it didn’t. … On a side note about this incident. I love Debian and Linux, and I would only encourage people to use this system. But, if things like this happen on a regular basis, normal users will not use it.
Gee, doesn’t that sound just like the kind of dick move that Microsoft would make? (except Microsoft is actually pretty good about maintaining basic compatibility) Priceless.