On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Gerry Creager wrote:
> Eric wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > 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!
>
> Why not, Eric? That's what most of us do. If it's not available in the
> distribution I'm using, I find it, implement it, and make a note for my
> next build.
>
> That I'm curently using RH 5.2 for configuration control
> notwithstanding, I still prefer, in general terms, Slackware. The RPM
> functionality just happened to appeal to me, since, in general terms, I
> use Linux as a requirement to get things accomplished rather than to
> play with kernels.
>
> It's not worth getting snippy over.
I wasn't getting snippy, sorry if it sounded like that. I was trying to
comment on the fact that Alan's posts are concise and informative and in
this case made me realize that sitting around wishing for something is of
no use whatsoever. I should get off my butt and see if I can make it work,
find out if it really is useful.
Now I'm trying to figure out where I can scrounge up an old 486 notebook
to put slackware and redhat on and try fooling with this. I was thinking
this morning about how if I remove the the sysV stuff from redhat it will
probably really break all of the package management, so I figured I might
leave it in place to fool rpm but change the init and put the BSD stuff in
there beside it. For slackware I imagine I can just delete all the BSD
stuff and more or less copy the redhat structure onto it. Since I have an
hour bus ride each way to and from work I could hack on it then and still
have "staring off into space" time during reboots. Heh.
The "Bwahaha" comment was meant as a joke of sorts. It just struck me as
funny because people like the different init styles of Slackware and
RedHat for various and well justified reasons, so on the surface you'd
think no one would want to graft one onto the other. However, I have a
RedHat box in production right now that I wouldn't dream of putting
Slackware on because it has just the right set of features, printtool for
example. Aliasing a bunch of IP addresses is a heck of a lot easier in
rc.inet1 though.
Regards,
Eric
