On 2/3/10 6:47 AM, Paul Wratt wrote:
I don't think Miro was berating him but he was implicitly berating Alan's work by stating that it's not worth trying a new mint distribution out because it wrecks your current setup. This isn't true, and there's no reason to have these issues without asking questions. Other people may read such statements and not try Alan's work too. This is not good! The methods of rescuing an easymint distribution are mostly common to all unices. Change init to /bin/sh or boot in single user mode. It's the same basic deal with mint. Atari/Mint is much easier because binaries are all statically linked and thus there is no worries about library paths and even more, TOS is built in and can always be fallen back on whereas on pc you need to boot a rescue cd because of no built in OS. Things are very very very easy with TOS/freemint and there's no reason to whine about it.nor is berating someone because of their lack of knowledge, frustration at the volume of unfinnished works, and general instability which is the pride of out chosen platform. Try stick to solutions and consise (not vague from newbies pov) answers, in the same way they are provided to you I seriously doubt anyone on this list blames any one person for any failure, well actually a quick review of the fast couple years post proves otherwise, but still, I guareentee they are not meant as personal attacks (they bloody better be)
Thanks, Mark