Re: [tlug] Super long compile times

[Nguyen Vu Hung <vuhung@example.com>]

Hello all,

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Godwin Stewart wrote:

> And Thus Spake Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com> (on Mon, 25 Aug 2003
> 20:51:30 -0700):
> 
> > Just when I think I've found every possible reason to despise
> > Mandrake, I find another one :-p

:p, you have a LM sence defender

> 
> Heh -- Mandrake wouldn't even let me set up a /root partition and maintained
> in no uncertain terms that it had to be a subdirectory of the root "/".

No, you can enter /what/ever/you/want as a mount point when doing
partitioning. 

> 
> That's one good reason to avoid it.
> 
> Secondly, the kernel is patched to death by chimps who don't know how to
> program kernel space stuff. RH is also patched to death but at least the
> programmers know what they're doing (I believe Alan Cox is one of them).

Do you think supermount is nice? One thing I hate LM9.1 is that they don't
put kernel-source in their distrobution. I have to download kernel source
mannually.

> 
> Finally, Mandrake are spammers. I received several of these to addresses
> scraped off usenet:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Received: from mailgate.cesmail.net (mailgate.cesmail.net [216.154.195.36])
> 	by gstewart.homeunix.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h4QEbWw3031505
> 	for <x>; Mon, 26 May 2003 16:37:34 +0200
> Received: (qmail 31717 invoked from network); 26 May 2003 14:37:27 -0000
> Received: from unknown (HELO alpha.cesmail.net) (192.168.1.155)
>   by mailgate.cesmail.net with SMTP; 26 May 2003 14:37:27 -0000
> Received: (qmail 30981 invoked by uid 1010); 26 May 2003 14:37:27 -0000
> Delivered-To: x
> Received: (qmail 30921 invoked from network); 26 May 2003 14:37:24 -0000
> Received: from unknown (HELO mailgate.cesmail.net) (192.168.1.101)
>   by alpha.cesmail.net with SMTP; 26 May 2003 14:37:24 -0000
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> Received: from office.mandrakesoft.com (195.68.114.34)
>   by mailgate.cesmail.net with SMTP; 26 May 2003 14:37:24 -0000
> Received: from mandrakesoft.com (katinka.mandrakesoft.com [192.168.1.57])
> 	by office.mandrakesoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP
> 	id 85C3843216; Mon, 26 May 2003 16:36:23 +0200 (CEST)
> Message-ID: <3ED2________0108@example.com>

Weird Message-ID

> Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 16:47:00 +0200
> From: Gaurav Parakh <gparakh@example.com>
> Organization: MandrakeSoft S.A.
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020828

Mandrake use Sympa as their mailing list software. 
I don't think they are using Mozilla to send massive emails.
 
 This is a part of an email I received from someone@example.com Take at look
at "Received:" and see how the email wen out:

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Received: from smtp.mandrake.org (smtp.mandrake.org [212.43.244.24])
        by ema.fedu.uec.ac.jp (8.9.3p2/3.7WFEDUMGW) with ESMTP id CAA20989
        for <vuhung@example.com>; Sun, 24 Aug 2003 02:26:47 +0900
Received: from smtp1.mandrax.org (smtp1.mandrax.org [80.67.180.170])
        by smtp.mandrake.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
        id 55A0749D70E; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 19:33:07 +0200 (CEST)
Received: by smtp.mandrax.org (Postfix, from userid 0)
        id 0699F56C5C; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:36:53 +0200 (CEST)
Delivered-To: cooker-i18n@example.com
Received: from ezoffice.mandrakesoft.com (office [212.11.15.34])
        by smtp.mandrax.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 147B456B29
        for <cooker-i18n@example.com>; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:36:36
+0200 (C
EST)
Received: from vador.mandrakesoft.com (anakin.mandrakesoft.com
[192.168.100.54])
        by ezoffice.mandrakesoft.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA11424
        for <cooker-i18n@example.com>; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 19:22:15
+0200
Received: from vador.mandrakesoft.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
        by vador.mandrakesoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB57A1BD34
        for <cooker-i18n@example.com>; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 19:21:39
+0200 (C
EST)
To: cooker-i18n@example.com
Subject: Re: [i18n] mdkkdm weirdness
X-URL: <http://www.linux-mandrake.com/
References: <20030821170050.61872.qmail@example.com>
        <Pine.GSO.4.56.0308231904220.254@example.com>
From: Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@example.com>
Organization: MandrakeSoft
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 19:21:39 +0200
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0308231904220.254@example.com> (Reinout
 van Schouwen's message of "Sat, 23 Aug 2003 19:06:00 +0200 (CEST)")
Message-ID: <m28ypkguho.fsf@example.com>
User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Reply-To: cooker-i18n@example.com
X-Loop: cooker-i18n@example.com
X-Sequence: 799
Precedence: list
List-Help: <mailto:sympa@example.comsubject=help>
List-Subscribe:
<mailto:sympa@example.comsubject=subscribe%20cooker-i18n
>
List-Unsubscribe:
<mailto:sympa@example.comsubject=unsubscribe%20cooker-
i18n>
List-Post: <mailto:cooker-i18n@example.com>
List-Owner: <mailto:cooker-i18n-request@example.com>
Sender: cooker-i18n-owner@example.com
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Cheers

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