[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, at 10:55am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> ... espoused by Evi Nemeth, et al, in the UNIX/Linux System >> Administrator's Handbook series. RH violates these basic practices with >> their configurations many times. > > Heh. My take on the same thing was that USAH didn't "get" many things >about Linux and GNU. :-) The biggest being: GNU's Not Unix. There are >times where Red Hat (and others) have decided not to perpetuate certain >braindamages from traditional Unix. I, for one, am thankful for that in >many cases. Yes, it sometimes causes older software to break. The answer >is to fix the software. Ever read "The Unix Hater's Handbook"? It's got some very good points about the flaws in Unix. I think it's pre-Linux and many of the things it complains about had been fixed by the time I read it ('92). Some of the things have been fixed but the old versions are still distributed by the Unix vendors. > -- ------- Tom Buskey ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************