Topic: Larry The Crunchbang Guy
Larry has posted two new blogs
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Very good #! info, well written and stated
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Bla-DAM! That's some good stuff.
I seem to remember an intro thread started by someone on the Fedora development team. Is this the same guy?
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/edit - Not so sure...
Also a thread starting DeadHead with a tie die tux...
Backtracking pvsage, I do not think he is the dev that flew by for the short time..
I think his role in Fedora was more promotional
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Awww, thanks guys! :-)
VastOne is right: My role with Fedora was split between documentation and promotion; on the latter, I was responsible for training Fedora Ambassadors and organizing Fedora's presence at Linux expos west of the Rockies.
pvsage: I'd be interested to see who that might be, and I'll do a search in a bit.
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Thanks, VastOne. I don't know him by name or by sight, and his blog seems to be inactive.
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Thanks for the heads up on the new posts, VO. These two crept up on me. I'd bookmarked his blog and read bits and pieces of it -- he seems to be enthusiastic, that's for sure and I'm always up for a good read. We had passing comments in the same thread earlier this week as I recall.
So the question to Larry is [and I ask because it wasn't clear to me yesterday] did you make the sale to the vice-president, or not? 
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Hi Larry, this all sounds great. Let's not forget, though, that #! is still Phillip's baby. He's the "Crunchbang Guy". 
John
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^ I am fairly sure we are well aware of that.
But once released to FOSS, #! is everyones baby!! 
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@dubois..
you are quite welcome and a good question that I hope Larry gets an answer to soon..
BTW, one of these days you will have something like this ..
Thanks for the heads up on the new posts, VO 5 people also agree..
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^^ Agreed, especially since cb-welcome has the rare WTFPL - do What The F*** you want to Public Licence.
I'm sure both Corenominal and Daniel Lawrence Whitney would be pleasantly amused by Lt#!G's moniker.
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Ah a meta-reference lost on this Brit till I did a Google...
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( a boring Japan blog , and idle twitterings )
“Good morning sir, which way up would you like your reality today?” "As it comes, Jeeves, as it comes..."
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( a boring Japan blog , and idle twitterings )
“Good morning sir, which way up would you like your reality today?” "As it comes, Jeeves, as it comes..."
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@pvsage - An interesting discussion would be a 'What if' or 'What would happen to #! if,'
I agree, Papa Core and DLW should/would be amused
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@johnraff: Well, I had to Wiki to find Larry the Cable Guy's real name...
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VastOne wrote:
@dubois..
you are quite welcome and a good question that I hope Larry gets an answer to soon..
BTW, one of these days you will have something like this ..
Thanks for the heads up on the new posts, VO 5 people also agree..
Should I begin beating my head on the table now, or wait until later.
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dubois wrote:
Should I begin beating my head on the table now, or wait until later.
I don't know what it is all about, but do it now
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@ dubois... now is good.. 
Only a few of us will know what the heck we are talking about..
makes it even funnier...
Wait, that is everyday for me... 
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What I like is the double joke -- a joke within a joke if you want to call it that. Reminds me of the one about the guy beating his head on the table and someone asks him why he's doing it. He answers
because it feels so good when I stop.
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johnraff -- Sorry to address this so late: Yes, the name of the blog is a riff on Larry the Cable Guy. Incidentally, I'm not really a fan of Larry the Cable Guy, but we happen to share a first name and since my original blog (since 2007 and still going) is Larry the Free Software Guy (for the same reason), well, there you go.
Philip is definitely and absolutely THE -- T-H-triple-E -- CrunchBang Guy and I would never suggest otherwise.
[It didn't occur to me that the moniker might not translate well across the Atlantic, though. Oops.]
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dubois -- To answer your question: Not yet.
A little history here: Greg DeKoenigsberg was at Red Hat for quite some time and was, I think, the first project manager for the Fedora Project. While I've never met him in person, I've communicated with him over the years by e-mail, IM and such, as a result of my activities with Fedora. I think Greg was, for lack of a better term, "yanking my chain," in a friendly way, about bolting Fedora for #!.
Incidentally, there's a comment from a #! user named Darrin that's just as good, if not better, than the blog item itself. I wish I had incorporated some of that into the original blog, and I will probably use much of that when I talk about #! at SCALE and Linux Fest Northwest (if LFNW accepts my talk).
I do wish I were a better salesman. I know what I like, and I know the advantages that #! has over others. I'm not going to force you to use something you don't want to use, though. In this regard, fortunately CrunchBang pretty much sells itself.
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^ What got to me through reading the forum over several years is the sheer number of people who exclaim on finding crunchbang
wow, that is exactly what I was looking for
or
I was working on something just like that
or
that's what I'd always envisioned a distro to be
or
those are my favorite colors
but you get the idea. <doh!> But of course you get the idea.
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<mode=just_kidding>Yeah, well if you must know, it was the food in the forums that swayed me to #!</mode>
I always wondered about that, but always found it amusing (not to mention appetizing). Sense of humor -- excuse me, "humour" -- always goes far in a FOSS community, and it's good to see it's thriving here.
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^ I think it all started with the LOLCatsified "Come to the Dark Side. We has cookies!"
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~"distro-hopped on every distro on DistroWatch except Gentoo"~
wow. and i thought i had it bad, somewhere near 400 distros tried. i've probably not even seen half of the distros on distrowatch. ... i mean, there's the waiting list too... .... ... hrm, do i detect exaduration? does larry really mean he used funtoo, and exherbo, and lfs, but failed on gentoo?
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