Most Linux "users" I interact with have been using "inux distros for a very long time and are either professional sysadmins, or developers who work at various layers of the stack :)
Also, a person may be excellent at one technology but a newbie at something else. For the past three months, I've been interacting every weekend with some user group or the other, and their inputs are useful for us in improving Belenix. -- Sriram On 12/2/09, Kaya Saman <SamanKaya at netscape.net> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: >> Sriram Narayanan wrote: >>> - What is IPS ? Why not make use of rpm/dpkg ? >> >> I'm always amused by this question since there is no "standard" >> version of RPM. Each distributor seems to change or enhance it for >> their own needs. >> >> dpkg is probably the only packaging system that I've seen that remains >> relatively unchanged for each distribution that uses it. >> >> I'm also amused by this question because they never ask Fedora or >> RedHat distributions why they don't use dpkg and they don't ask Debian >> distributions why they don't use rpm. So why ask us why we don't use >> rpm or dpkg? :) >> >> Cheers, > > Actually there is a distro called ClarkConnect: http://www.clarkconnect.com/ > > which is based on CentOS but uses apt-get........ :-) > > Personally I just feel Linux guys are not really as knowledgeable as > those that use Solaris/OpenSolaris but at the same time those of us that > use both systems seem to be real experts in either programing or > consultants! > > Now then where is the Turkish OSUG??? Come on guys we have much work to > do....... :-) > > --Kaya > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss > -- Sent from my mobile device
