Re: kernel 2.2.0, portmap, ipx and so on

[Eric]

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I understand that this BSDish vs SysVish is something like
> > a holy war with no real solution. I wish RedHat and Debian
> 
> In the commercial world its a holy war that got settled by the "vendor
> wants to automatically update" problem. Given sys5 style init versus the
> great autoexec editing game of DOS people went th esame way
> 
> > had packages that would allow me to plug in BSDish init
> > for when it's appropriate. And if Slackware would let me
> > choose when installing...
> 
> Go ahead. Make a "slackhat". This is Linux you are encouraged to do so if
> you think its the right thing to do.

This is what I like about your posts, Alan. Of course I shouldn't be
sitting around wishing for stuff, I ought to be mashing together
two different distributions and see if I can graft SysV onto Slackware
and BSDish onto RedHat. Bwahaha... then everyone can hate me! 

Regards,
Eric