On Friday, March 28, 2014 2:34:07 PM UTC+5:30, alister wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:57:11 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > wrote: > >> [BTW I consider the windows registry cleaner than the linux /etc for > >> the same reason] > > And if I felt like trolling, I'd point out that there are a lot more > > search engine hits for "windows registry cleaner" than "linux etc > > cleaner". :) > > ChrisA > Not to mention that the windows registry is a Single Point of failure. > if it gets corrupt (by 1 minor program crashing whilst writing to it)the > chances are your OS is broken to the point of being unfixable. > at least with the Linux system (& the multiple config files of windows 3 > & earlier) it can normaly be fixed with a simple text editor. This sure used to be true in the windows 95-98 era. I dont believe its been this way for more than a decade. XP onwards there's enough redundancy+fallback+checkpointing so that we rarely really hear of this any more [But Im not a windows guy :-)] On the other hand in linux I find that when something is upgraded and needs to upgrade *its own* config files in /etc it can often have trouble. I trace this to the fact that what is needed is mostly a simple key-value store holding some config parameters. What is stored is usually a general script. As a result http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/leastPower.html kicks in. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list