Hi,
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Girish Venkatachalam
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 2) There are too many ways to do the same thing. No agreement, too many egos
> to
> satisfy and the project is being pulled in too many directions as
> finding consensus when
> there are too many interests is hard. Even in things like epoll or
> inotify or udev or whatever
>
There are lots of ways to do a thing even in the UNIX world. It
is the availability of options that makes it good.
>
> 4) Linux is immature and a kid compared to UNIX as it does not have
> ftp, ssh or make or gcc or
> gdb in base install. The very spirit of UNIX and engineer mindset is
> lost in trying to make it
> everything for everybody
>
That is in fact a very trivial thing. And if enough people make a
request to their distro, they are going to make it available in the
base install. The idea is to separate policy and mechanism - You have
a mechanism to install, and you have a policy of what goes into the
base install. It is very easy to change the policy and add 1 package -
for eg. build-essential in case of Debian, to get what you want.
--
Thank you
Balachandran Sivakumar
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- Swami Vivekananda
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