On Tuesday 20 July 2004 03:41, Kevin Anderson wrote: > And again, if Gentoo was the only OS that people supported, this problem > would disappear.
which won't happen. so we need to find ways to respect diversity but grant interoperability. > MS Office XP. Which perhaps more clearly shows that the problem is with > the application's flexibilty in terms of where/how it is used/installed, > rather than a problem with the OS itself. the problem is that this flexibility takes an enormous amount of resources to accomplish and simply doesn't work in the practical world. we can save those efforts by simply creating community driven and accepted standards. i do believe there should be "different" standards (or even just layered standards) for different sorts of OSes... e.g. firewalls vs. routing appliances vs. servers vs. desktops vs...... but OSes in the same "purpose class" should be interoperable as much as possible. > > given that we are dealing with limited resources (# of people * time in a > > day), that sort of optimization should be desireable. > > Ironic. Optimization is usually one of Gentoo's selling points. hehe... different kind of optimization, obviously ;-) -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
