Linked by Tyler Bancroft on Wed 18th Feb 2004 20:35 UTC
I considered reviewing Debian for this article. I downloaded a copy of Debian 3.0r2, making sure to get the disk with the 2.4 kernel. Everything you've heard about Debian being difficult to install? It's not totally true, but it's pretty close. I really wanted to try Debian, though, if only to use the vaunted apt-get system. I'd tried apt-rpm on a previous Red Hat installation, and it was great. Since Debian was turning out to be too difficult to put together, I decided to look for a debian-based distro.
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Oh, that's great. Shame that Windows from 2000 on up has used NTFS instead, eh? I mentioned ntfsresize for a reason; perhaps you should go read my post again.
"These tools are OLD and do an incomparable job."
Ntfsresize's latest development release was made just 2 days ago on the 17th of February, 2004. By contrast, FIPS, which you recommended, was last updated on May 11, 1998 (http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/distrib/history.txt). *You* are the one recommending antiquated tools; I recommend you get yourself up to speed.
"No GUI you say?"
Please refrain from putting words in my mouth. I didn't say that. Nor would I, since it's clearly wrong. Check out QTParted (http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/) for a project making great headway in this area.
"What you said marks you as a Windows loser... I mean user, who is unfamiliar with or a newbie to Linux."
Do the world a favour and go check out the netiquette (http://www.albion.com/netiquette/book/index.html) so that you can learn how to hold a civil conversation online. Unless, of course, you're actually this ghastly an individual in the flesh, as well, in which case you've got deeper problems and should seek therapy instead.
"A newbie should not be making software reviews about advanced subjects to avoid spreading misinformation."
I disagree most strongly. Anyone has the right to review anything they like. Rather, it's the responsibility of sites like OSNews to pre-vet the material submitted to them to ensure that substandard material (not that I think this review was all that bad) doesn't make its way onto the front page, and the responsibility of the readers to do their own research rather than just taking what the reviewer says as gospel.