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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Erik Reuter
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> I don't know AS/400. But the linux method is more robust than the
> Windows registry method. Almost all of the configuration for my linux
> system is stored in text files in the /etc/ directory, with some other
> stuff stored in .* files in my /home/username/ directory. In total, it
> comprises at most a few megabytes, so it is easy to backup. It is stored
> in multiple files, so if one gets munged, all the others are still okay.
> It is stored in ASCII text so I can edit it easily with any text editor
> that I like.
Except sendmail, whose config certainly *can* be edited with a text editor,
but there are only three people in the world who understand it. ;-)
Of course, I'm mostly poking fun at it, since there is now a simpler way to
do the most common configurations, but still...
And then there's kernel configuration and building, which is plenty
confusing. But that isn't even possible with Windows.
I still do a lot of my work on Windows, even though it's mostly e-mail and
Office applications. And I do Perl on Windows because the ActiveState PDK
debugger is better than anything else I've tried. I just started trying out
the OpenPerl IDE, though, and it looks promising. And I've started running
Perl on my Linux box, talking to the ActiveState debugger on Windows, which
is very cool, since there are a number of Perl modules that won't compile on
Windows.
And to think I used to be a Macintosh bigot... Still have one of those,
which I almost only use to reconfigure my LaserWriter when I have to make
network changes. To use the printer with Linux, I have to be able to set
its IP address, and as far as I know, the only software to do so easily is
on the Mac. (But it is always possible to telnet to it, since it prints its
address at startup.)
The Mac runs Yellow Dog Linux the rest of the time.
Nick
