On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 18:25:53 -0600, Boyd wrote in message <201011071826.00774....@iguanasuicide.net>:
> On Sunday 07 November 2010 18:16:39 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 02:35:48 -0600, Boyd wrote in message > > <201011070235.48667....@iguanasuicide.net>: > > > In <20101106225444.0fb26...@a45.fmb.no>, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > >On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:57:28 -0500, John wrote in message > > > ><87lj57y4x3....@thumper.dhh.gt.org>: > > > >> Arnt Karlsen writes: > > > >> > ..IME, it's "Unstable", it and "Experimental" doesn't quite > > > >> > live up to the expectations of adrenaline kicks you want > > > >> > from these PR'y buzzwords. ;o) > > > >> > > > >> Don't try to install Experimental, though. It is not intended > > > >> to be a complete distribution: just an archive for experimental > > > >> packages. > > > > > > > >..why not? Progress takes _somebody_ pushing forward, and, > > > >Chuck Yeager made it thru ok in his Experimental rides. ;o) > > > > > > What you can't do is install experimental. That would be roughly > > > equivalent trying to get airborne with just a set of experimental > > > wings and control services but no fuselage or instruments. > > > > ..yup, works quite well since 1903. ;o) > > Fsckin' flying-wing designs, I figured someone would reference them. ..those came later, Horten, Lippisch 'n Northrop. ;o) > I mean it was like trying to get airborne without some part of the > plane that is absolutely required. ..no part of the plane is "absolutely required", I've gotten airborne gaining a wee bit of altitude without an aircraft, all it took was a "wee" gust, but that stunt was a fair bit more accidental than experimental, I was just leaning on the wind waving arms like a parachute jumper, and had enough sense and airmanship to just grab and hang onto the fence. ;o) > (Really, some required parts of Debian are simply missing from > experimental, so it isn't possible to install *just* experimental.) ..well, we do have the 2.6.36 kernel in place in "Experimental", and X and the radeon driver... what else do we need to fly? ;o) ..and the only danger in my "Sid + Experimental" combination, would have to come from the somewhat cocky can-do troll attitude it helps build. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101108050349.1bf5c...@a45.fmb.no
