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Giles,

I agree. Congratulations on a job very well done. In the past week, my son upgraded from an old Powerbook G-3 to an eMac. His first request was
an Oolite download...

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Now *that* is an Egoboost! :D

How old is your son? He really likes it? 8)
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Rxke wrote:
Now *that* is an Egoboost! :D

How old is your son? He really likes it? 8)
wow I just saw you're from belgium

Ik wist niet dat hier andere belgen op het forum zaten :lol:
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En een heel productieve Nederlander (A_Heretic)

Oolite is pretty international, a lot of Russians seem to play Oolite too, since it was reviewed in the russian Linux mainsite but they do not post (as far as I can tell)
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Rxke wrote:
Now *that* is an Egoboost! :D

How old is your son? He really likes it? 8)

My son, Joshua, is 12. He does indeed like Oolite, and has chosen a life of crime. I consider this his personal form of rebellion against the Old Man, whose legal status is still "Clean."

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Oolite? Is that like Bud Lite?
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who are you trying to kid, just admit it's in the genes :twisted:
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Oolite just passed 10,000 downloads on berlios.de!
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Berlios.de is just a small part of the picture. A significant number of downloads are made from ftp.alioth.net, and the berlios + ftp.alioth.net stats are _just_ for Linux, an incredibly minority desktop OS. Add in Macintosh downloads, and you probably have at a rough guess 40,000+ downloads, possibly more.

Once we get a stable Windows build, then we'll also have the "unwashed masses" [0] downloading too, which will probably add a few more tens of thousands to our number.

[0] That's just a joke. I have nothing against Windows users :-)
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winston wrote:

[0] That's just a joke. I have nothing against Windows luzors :-)
Hohoho!
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*Whips out the flame proof underwear and a fire extinguisher*
"unwashed masses"
I'm saying nothing about the linux userbase at all... however you never see gentoo and soap in the same place at the same time :wink:
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Spooky wrote:
I'm saying nothing about the linux userbase at all... however you never see gentoo and soap in the same place at the same time :wink:
Someone should implement soap as a clause in the ports Makefile and maybe it will get ported over to gentoo as well... :-)

And to get back on topic I should also add my thanks for reviving free elite Giles and kudos for making it so easily modable.
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xaotik wrote:
And to get back on topic I should also add my thanks for reviving free elite Giles and kudos for making it so easily modable.
I'll second that, being easily modable (for those who know how) is a major part of the success and collaborative development like this is an irresistable force.

So thankyou Giles for your foresight, and thankyou to all the contributors, too many to mention, but regular BBS members know who they are, whether they be major or minor, all contributions are very much apreciated by non techys like me.
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Spooky wrote:
I'm saying nothing about the linux userbase at all... however you never see gentoo and soap in the same place at the same time :wink:
Well, when I talk about 'unwashed masses', I'm talking entirely in the figurative sense, of course :-)
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No, it's fairly accurate. Until I installed Ubuntu, I hadn't had a bath for three months. No time, you see, due to the need for endless configuration of software*.








* or 'feckling' as I usually call it before launching a mug at the computer.
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