You know COLA are liars when

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, tab wrote on 27 Jul 2005 17:23:16 -0700

You really need to be more specific here.

1 what is "it" in "it works"? Is it:

a cp? b xfig? c parsec? d gEDA? e a kernel driver? f the installation package detecting a piece of hardware? (If so, which?)

2 Admittedly, knowledge of which distro is helpful. I'll chide the rest of the COLA regs on that. :-) But it's usually pretty obvious.

3 Did you expect every distro to contain every package? DamnSmallLinux probably isn't going to have as much stuff as RedHat Enterprise or Gentoo -- though it has more than enough to get started, for those with a tight RAM-disk budget.

4 "Free time" is an issue, but that's what IT is for. :-) Of course for the home user Windows is a lot easier to use -- until it gets infected with malware or confuses itself. (From reports on this newsgroup it seems to do both with pathetic regularity.)

Of course, there are a fair number of things that *don't* work in Linux -- malware, for one :-), but also I'm still having issues with Rosegarden. It's possible some of Rosegarden's subdependencies are in a confused state; I've only just discovered revdep-rebuild on my work machine, and it's only a partial solution to the problem, which can be characterized as:

1 Install package a-1. 2 a-1 requires package b-1. 3 b-1 gets upgraded to b-2; a-1 does not get upgraded since b-2 is upwardly compatible with b-1 API-wise. 4 a-1 is now rather confused.

This has a faint odor of "DLL Hell" but at least it's easily fixed by rebuilding things in the correct order. It's the flip side of fast-moving opensource.

-- It's still legal to go .sigless.