Collins wrote: > On Thu, 09 May 2002 18:38:40 -0700 "Net Llama!" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I wouldn't say that Redhat doesn't have a clue. They just like to >>make standards, rather than follow them. >> > > > I would call it "doing it their own damn way." What they do > (sometimes reluctantly) becomes standard just because everyone else > gives up.
The LSB will put a stop to that. >>I wouldn't touch Debian with a 10ft stick. Way too many religious >>zealots. >> > > > Total agreement, but lots of people like it. It's really the > "old-time religion," emphasis on o-l-d. They do, of course, have a > development branch. I could never get one of their base installs to > run on my machines. Oh, I know alot of Debian die-hards as well. They're great folks, but i'm not in the mood to deal with all the fanatacism that goes on around the Debian project. >>Mandrake makes a nice desktop distro, or so i've heard, but its a >>wee bit too unstable for my taste. I mean, devfs as the standard??? >> What >>were they thinking? > > > I guess I resemble that remark. gentoo has been serving up devfs > almost since day one, and I can't remember any failures due to devfs. > As I said in another post, once you get the arcane syntax down (gentoo > does it for you), you forget that it exists. Until devfs is removed from the kernel (which is quite likely to occur), and everyone is forced to convert /dev into whatever becomes the next trend. My point was that devfs is not officially a stable solution. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 6:05pm up 22 days, 59 min, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.10, 0.09 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
