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hey yea Recoil... ease up on the patriotism
think of it as a more geographical distinction than a socio-political one... it's just a poll that is meant to be meaningful to the person who put it up, not to the people polling.
after all, if u notice, the poll is about CONTINENTS and not NATIONS... and UK is officially not considered a CONTINENT while Australia IS a CONTINENT and a NATION at the same time.
another example to calm your ruffled feelings:
my very own country, Singapore! too small to even be a city... yet we are a nation. well, it's asia i voted... i don't think Singapore would ever have the audacity to call itself a continent
Originally posted by trickykid well, sorry.. but as i see it.. there are 7 continents so i listed them.. i didn't want to list all 140 or more countries..
Aw, come on Tricky, when you mentioned this poll back on the Taz's(?) distro poll, I thought we were going to get a country breakdown cross-referenced with distro preference so I could see if my theory of a Slackware Australia was accurate.
Honestly, Recoil, Tricky, I live in the American southeast that just thinks its a seperate nation, so I'm more than happy to be classified by continent.
Aw, come on Tricky, when you mentioned this poll back on the Taz's(?) distro poll, I thought we were going to get a country breakdown cross-referenced with distro preference so I could see if my theory of a Slackware Australia was accurate.
probably don't need one.. everyone from australia that i see on these boards has used or uses slackware...
Originally posted by trickykid probably don't need one.. everyone from australia that i see on these boards has used or uses slackware...
I haven't used Slack (although I intend to eventually), and I'm from Australia......
I am surprised at that as well, I thought that Mandrake would be more popular here.
I know a fair few people who use Mandrake as their distribution of choice, and the $5 Linux CD's at the swapmeets are normally Mandrake or Redhat, from what I've seen.......
The bloke who does the linux cd's at the markets around here has all the distro's apart from the latest suse, he even has the available BSD's and games/application cd's...including one with the complete collection of Flight Gear packages. All done with printed cd's and jewl case inserts.
[ probably brainwashed like the rest of the universe thinking we only have old ghost towns, tumbleweeds blowing across the street.. that type of thing everyone sees in the movies.. sorry, just felt i had to stick up for my state again..
much better than indiana, where everyone assumes you live in a cornfield.
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