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closing da grill

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:13 pm
by machinebacon
dear visitors
due to financial and technical problems the leadership has decided to close the grill. all releases will be merged in Linux Mint's new branch based on Debian unstable. furthermore, we recommend a visit at the excellent aptosid distrolette.

thank you for your support,

adam pril
vice manager

Re: closing da grill

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:33 pm
by RandomCharacter
Shit!

Tim

Re: closing da grill

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:51 pm
by slartie
Oh I hope the merged release will be a combination of Gnome, KDE and all the goodness of every over WM and DE known to man. All daemons running at the same time to anticipate every possible fucking usage scenario people can come up with. Base install is 50GB with another 150GB of "you should really be using these!" packages slipstreamed in during the first software update.

Can't wait!

Re: closing da grill

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 3:26 pm
by bones
It's about time somebody did something. As Obi-Wan Kenobi describes Mos Eisley, the grill is also clearly "a wretched hive of scum and villainy." Let's water it down, Minty-style.

Re: closing da grill

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 4:35 pm
by kiiroitori
Well I am not surprised. I started using windows8 with that slick metro interface and it goes so well with my facebook theme and various desktop widgets that I realized how far behind linux was in terms of everyfuckinthing - and this announcement just proves my point.
By the way machinebacon now that you will have more time if you can write a tutorial on how to add smileys in facebook chat .

ps:do you know how i can change the font to comic -sans ms in internet explorer? Give me a tutorial (step by step!)

Re: closing da grill

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 4:40 pm
by GekkoP
Shame though, my MetroBBQ was almost done.

Re: closing da grill

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:21 pm
by vic
Shit, look what `s happened now when reading this, , the "Terminal" just went off in my hand!

Re: closing da grill

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:47 pm
by kexolino
Ah, I almost crapped my pants when reading the title, you had me for a moment :D I totally forgot it was April 1st lol

Re: closing da grill

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:56 pm
by dkeg
W8 here I come

Re: closing da grill

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 10:26 pm
by rhowaldt
about fucking time, was getting pretty sick of this shit.

@kiiiiiro: hahahahaha

Re: closing da grill

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:05 am
by johnraff
I quite like Comic Sans MS
- never really figured out why people hated it so much.

Re: closing da grill

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 11:35 am
by kiiroitori
Johnraff, people hate it because it is a terrible font! Probably because it was over-used as well. My dislike for that font came when I started seeing it everywhere, but as we say in our neighbourhood "十人十色" (ten people ten colours) so let's disagree on the quality of that font!

Re: closing da grill

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:08 pm
by bones

Re: closing da grill

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 2:23 pm
by rhowaldt
to me it is just a personal preference: i think it is really ugly. for some weird reason i am really focussed on shapes, and i really dislike the shapes in Comic Sans.

i believe anytime a large group of people hate something, 90% of them are not even sure why, and have never given it much thought. they just decided one day that they hated it, too.

Re: closing da grill

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 6:39 pm
by ivanovnegro
kexolino wrote:Ah, I almost crapped my pants when reading the title, you had me for a moment :D I totally forgot it was April 1st lol
I was slightly confused by the title, yep. Do we have this crap in our country? In Spain it is at the end of December.

Re: closing da grill

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 10:01 pm
by kexolino
^ Yeah, I'd say most people consider it a thing.

Re: closing da grill

Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 8:50 pm
by rufio
"十人十色" (ten people ten colours)
they're all pink on the inside

tastes like chicken

Re: closing da grill

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 5:06 am
by vic
Since xp is closing down in these days it is very good timing for an upgrade to vista.

Re: closing da grill

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 12:00 pm
by machinebacon
well, last year we merged with aptosid ;)

closing it for good :D