Re: tlug: advice needed: choosing a distribution

[Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com>]

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Ah, who gives a **** about backwards compatibility, anyway?

After a certain amount of cruft accumulates, it's best to chuck the whole
mess and start over.

The config format is _nasty_.  No other way to describe it.

> Boys!  Boys!  Be nice!

Uh, Scott?  Would you like to let the TLUG guys in on our little joke?

> I assume XF86 is _not_ going to go to a "indentation matters" format,
> or a binary "registry" ;-).

Nope.  Flat text file, whitespace irrelevent.

-- Chris

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