[Testing] small gitch with the Best OS ever

[John Watlington]

The "Even Better OS" ?
The "Most Excellent OS" ?

Or, we could just keep calling each successive
release the "Best OS Image Ever".   It wouldn't
be too inaccurate...  (But hell on bug reports)

Cheers,
wad

On Aug 9, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Mitch Bradley wrote:

> I wonder what the (hopefully even better) successor to os850 will be called?
> 
> Caryl Bigenho wrote:
>> 
>> FYI: "Best OS Image Ever" is a term that has been used on the 
>> unofficial OLCP News Forum. It has also floated over to FaceBook.  It 
>> is referring to os850.
>> 
>> 
>> Caryl
>> 
>> 
>>> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:39:02 -1000
>>> From: wmb at laptop.org
>>> To: fertigc at gmail.com
>>> CC: testing at lists.laptop.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Testing] small gitch with the Best OS ever
>>> 
>>> It's pretty hard for me to work out what is going on. I've never heard
>>> of the "Best OS ever". A Google search for that phrase yields a variety
>>> of commentaries, opinions, and spoof articles about various well-known
>>> operating systems.
>>> 
>>> If there really is an OS of that name, I have to seriously question the
>>> judgment of whoever picked that name.
>>> 
>>> In general, one will have better results on an XO with a
>>> tuned/customized kernel than with a stock kernel from a distro that 
>> runs
>>> on generic PCs. If the "Best OS ever" has such a generic kernel, it's
>>> not surprising that some things don't work flawlessly.
>>> 
>>> Charles W Fertig wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Installed same. Hangs on reboot about ¼ of the time when using 
>> “shutdown”
>>>> 
>>>> Never hangs (as yet) when I hold down the power key and reboot.
>>>> 
>>>> Data set = 20
>>>> 
>>>> 
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