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In an attempted spin to turn my own wits against me the developer of Bluewhite64 has tried to turn my article against me. The funny thing is that if I were you, I would’ve admitted my wrong doing by now and moved on. However, you still want to banter on about how it is possible to port an entire distro in 4 weeks, when in the tuxmachines.org article you told the author it was 3 months.

Well, Dominian cannot handle the truth that Bluewhite64 is better than Slamd64 and instead of doing something useful, like helping Fred to maintain, develop and release Slamd64 at the same time like Slackware, he prefer to spread FUD. Anyway, I’m not interested in his opinions. I prefer to work and keep the Slackware line and offer the same user experience on a 64-bit environment.

I already noticed in the original review how I have created Bluewhite64, just read the comments. Also, I already thanked Fred for patches and scripts that I used. So, saying the same things twice is pointless.

Dominian, have you ever tried to port Slackware? Did you know that is possible to do it from scratch in 4 weeks if you work at least ~14 -15 hours/day including Sundays? Well, I have spend these hours when I started the work. Anyway I prefer to work instead of reading “hilarious” blogs.

Lets take this in stride. Most of those who read my blog and talk to me in person on a day-to-day basis know I’m not one to hold back on admitting my faults nor mistakes, but you seem adamant to attempt to tarnish me. Hehe, good luck. Lets take your comments and see what we get out of them…

Well, Dominian cannot handle the truth that Bluewhite64 is better than Slamd64 and instead of doing something useful, like helping Fred to maintain, develop and release Slamd64 at the same time like Slackware, he prefer to spread FUD. Anyway, I’m not interested in his opinions. I prefer to work and keep the Slackware line and offer the same user experience on a 64-bit environment.

Better? Your ego precedes you. The maintainer of Slamd64 has never once come out and said that he was “better” than anyone else nor made himself some kind of deity when it came to developing a distribution. He is a user who happens to compile a distro. He’s one of us. THAT, in my mind, is what makes Slamd64 better.

instead of doing something useful, like helping Fred to maintain, develop and release Slamd64 at the same time like Slackware, he prefer to spread FUD.

Fred like Pat is a one-man team. He has his dedicated user base to do the testing, bug reporting, and occasionally, we will submit fixes or patches that we have either found or written ourselves. Other than that, its Fred’s final say. Period.

I already noticed in the original review how I have created Bluewhite64, just read the comments. Also, I already thanked Fred for patches and scripts that I used

What does the review have anything to do with your dishonest way of claiming the work of another user as your own? I mean, if I took nearly a year to invent something and someone came along and took the same idea and the same work I had already done and then released their own “invention” I’d be a bit pissed. Not only would I want credit, but I would also want you to admit in public what you had done. Which at this point, I don’t think will ever happen. There are MORE than just the patches and scripts that you used. I remember the “knowledge” you had about trying to compile even a damn kernel and you were in an irc channel basically saying, this doesn’t work; how do I fix it? So spare me the BS of how you have done this all on your own with only using a few scripts and patches provided by Fred.

Dominian, have you ever tried to port Slackware? Did you know that is possible to do it from scratch in 4 weeks if you work at least ~14 -15 hours/day including Sundays? Well, I have spend these hours when I started the work. Anyway I prefer to work instead of reading “hilarious” blogs.

Yes, I have tried to port Slackware about the same time that Fred started and when I found out he was doing it, I stopped. I’m not a programmer; I’m an administrator, but I know enough that I can make patches/scripts to help out from time to time. I stopped because it was pointless. Here was Fred an accomplished programmer and student striving his way towards a technology degree. The project of taking on porting a distribution to an entirely new architecture is an amazing project for him both in learning more about his chosen field and in a test of will power on those late ass nights I remember him having. You on the other hand, “oh I’ll install this.. then just remove /usr/lib64 and recompile it and release it as another distribution.” Wow.. that’s.. hard.. work.

And yes, my blog is hilarious.

Yes, that is a direct quote from a forum speaking of my article You can’t handle the truth. Laws? Laws support truth, not lies and deception. Certainly not one who calls the work of someone else their own. I say face up to reality, admit what you did, apologize to the people who you owe it to, and move on with your life. That is, if it isn’t so tarnished from the spewing of nonsensical, idiotic crap that you have issues even getting a job flippin’ a burger…

I finally got around to getting Mailman installed and working. So, yes, slackadelic.com can now offer mailing list services.

It seems that a few people over at the Bluewhite64 project seem to think that my article “I can’t take it anymore” is a troll on that distribution. In fact, it is a personal opinion that has come from definite evidence that Bluewhite64 is a complete rip off of Slamd64 and its maintainer’s work.

This all started when this article (original text) was found on Tux Machines. Now, if you didn’t read close enough it states “As a one-man-team, Arny has managed to port if not all, then almost the full Slackware distro to the 64-bit arch in a matter of months.” Months? Months?!? You’ve got to be kidding me. This is where everything stemmed with my disgust at Bluewhite64. I’m sure its a great distribution. You know why? Because the work Arny supposedly did was the work Fred Emmott had already accomplished. There has never been an acknowledgment from the maintainer of Bluewhite64 of Fred Emmott’s work. Until that day comes, Bluewhite64 will continue to make me utterly sick.

Arny used Slamd64’s earlier versions to base his work for Bluewhite64. The only thing he did was 1) install Slamd64 2) rebuild all the packages but omitting /usr/lib64 and keeping all libraries in /usr/lib and 3) 64bit only support with no 32bit compatibility. Now, would you call this a new distribution? No, I would call it a fork of the original work.

These aren’t the only issues. I and Fred have both sat in irc channels and Arny come and ask for help to get something working. Funny thing is, it seemed to happen every time -current of Slamd64 was updated and something was broken in the tree which was still being worked on. Odd eh?

Not to mention the fact that, well, there are still comments in Bluewhite64 slackbuilds that were in Slamd64.

Interesting. So, speak of a troll as you may. Slamd64 release cycle is a bit slow at this time and if you paid attention to the Slamd64 site you would see why. The developer is working on the KDE4 project and quite a few other things.

So, Bluewhite64, get off your high horse, admit what you did, and we’ll all move on. You still, till this day will not acknowledge the work of Fred Emmott and the fact you FORKED his distribution and didn’t port Slackware yourself.

Yes, I finally got around to creating an rss feed for noobfarm.org. With the help of mwalling and edman007 from ##slackware on freenode, I was able to get all the code in place and working properly. Yes, sometimes the sun does shine on a dog’s ass, I guess.