[techieMoe]

Slack 12 rant is up. The world has not come to an end and I was not drunk when I wrote it.

[techieMoe]

Originally Posted by budman7

TechieMoe, how about a review of Sabayon 3.3?

Just as an update to this too, I recently unearthed a copy of Sabayon 3.3 that was sent to me a long time ago. I'd written it off as lost in the mail. I'll try that one out too, but probably not until I finish this last Harry Potter book.

[carlosponti]

I feel kinda let down I was half expecting a scathing review and got a fairly positive one. I just dont know what to do now for the rest of the day I am beside myself :P

[techieMoe]

Originally Posted by carlosponti

I feel kinda let down I was half expecting a scathing review and got a fairly positive one. I just dont know what to do now for the rest of the day I am beside myself :P

I fully expected a scathing rant as well. At least this one won't show up on OSNews any time soon.

[daacosta]

Moe,

Is it my impression or developers are reading reviews and improving distros accordingly? A 3 rating for Slackware from you is extremely rare...

[carlosponti]

could be that Patrick Googles his name from time to time and Moe and a few others including myself have made comment on the internet such as to make the decision to make changes accordingly. I am sure the Moe Rants would come up quite a bit on a Patrick name search.


googled his name and the infamous Moe ran on 11 comes up in the 4th page or so.

[jonantice]

He does seem like the kind of guy that googles his name every day.

[Dapper Dan]

Hi techieMoe...

I installed Slackware 12 and ran into this same thing you wrote in your rant...

I inserted a data CD and was greeted by a wonderful Konqueror error: "A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume member "Mount" error "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal").

I'm sure you all just jumped out of your seat and said, "Of course! I know exactly what that means!" Don't all stand up at once. I assumed it was a permissions issue and manually mounted the disk as root from a console.

I agree with you... This is rediculous! Why not just give the user the same remedy I'm about to give...?

To grant a user permission to mount and use the cdrom, go into kuser as root, and have user added to groupes "cdrom" and "plugdev." Then the error message goes away and the user can use the cdrom.

[carlosponti]

Moe got another distro for you to rant on absolute

i would be curious to see how it compares to Slackware of which its based on.

[techieMoe]

Originally Posted by carlosponti

Moe got another distro for you to rant on absolute

i would be curious to see how it compares to Slackware of which its based on.

Hmm. Interesting. I'll see if I can get a download of it. I can hear the vodka jokes already.