Philip Brown wrote:
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 11:02:20PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 22:08 -0700, ken mays wrote:
Going back to the comments about Nexenta build system:
Nexenta build system == Debian build system
The equation above means that NexentaOS following
Debian Policy[1] as close as possible. This is done on purpose.
Since a) we now can collaborate with Debian community and push our
changes upstream; b) we can easily migrate huge amount of packages under
NexentaOS APT repository.
The thing about all that, is that it forces the machine to be closer and
closer to a linux machine, until eventually, it becomes nothing more than a
linux machine with a user-invisible solaris kernel.
Gong! -- You violated my pet peeve -- one of the two[1] flagrant abuses
of the word Linux.
Your punishment: 1000 sentences:
Nexenta boxes are Debian/Nevada machines, they are not "Linux machines".
Nexenta boxes are Debian/Nevada machines, they are not "Linux machines".
...
:-)
Eric
[1] The other one is using "Linux Community" to refer to all users
and implementors of open-source and open operating systems --
e.g. "{Net,Open,Free}BSD users are part of `The Linux Community';
as are all implemetors of Apache and MySQL systems, etc. etc"
In constrast, one of the core (unwritten, I guess) principles about
packaging at blastwave, is to provide all the free stuffs, while still
keeping everything firmly sticking to SOLARIS/SVR4 policy. Not Debian policy.
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