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I just had an ICQ conversation with a former school colleague. It was the type of colleague who tried to convince me that Windows is so much better than Linux because Windows ME boots so much faster than a SuSE installation. Yeah, right.

Anyway, he approached me with "you'd never guess what I'm doing right now", I asked him "what?", and then he told me that he first compiled the kernel, then X.org and now KDE 3.3.1. I asked him why he compiles that stuff all by himself. "Because it makes the binaries better fit my CPU" (a usual Gentoo argument) and "because the FreeBSD ports system is the greatest thing in the world". "What? You're using FreeBSD?!"

"Yes, the ports system is so great and ..." and then he told me how ports works. I told him that he could have the same thing on Gentoo, or on Debian, and even without compiling so much on the latter one (of course, the FreeBSD ports system is not a bad thing, but it's definitely not the best thing since the invention of sliced bread). "Yeah, but Debian is an obscure patchwork!" "What?! Can you give me some examples?"

And then there was silence. Fucking FreeBSD fanboy. No offense to the FreeBSD developers who read this blog ;-), but you definitely don't deserve those kind of "fans". Some of them just don't understand that only bad systems require advocates, and whatever they're advocating, they're not doing anything good to it.