On 05/11/2012 10:33 AM, Shiv wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: Balwinder S Dheeman <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: >> Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2012 6:50 PM >> Subject: Re: [ilugd] ISPunity: featured in efytimes.com >>> ISPunity can be used by individuals or SME or Enterprises. >> Good job indeed, though a dependency on ruby seems to be an overkill to >> me; IMHO, all system level or command line tools, scripts and, or >> utilities should be light weight, whereas your ISPUnity thing is far >> from K.I.S.S. and, or Unix philosophy. >> >> BTW, did not you bother to look at what's already available on the >> Internet? > > I'm sure there are many such apps/distros/solutions available. > We've been using m0n0wall and pfSense (both freeBSD based) for a long time > now and Vyatta more recently. > It would be a shame to belittle Arun's efforts by suggesting that he is > "re-inventing"� the wheel.
Yes, he is re-inventing the wheel; you confirmed it and that too using wrong or bloated interpreter and dependencies. Everyone is free to waste or consume her/his time in learning and, or experimenting with coding anything, but sharing imperfect tools and, or flooding the Internet with countless alternatives and, or distributions is definitely a wastage of others time and freely available resources :( See also: Small is Beautiful http://bitly.com/q32Zsl Particularly, "/Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."/ - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry> Plz try to learn a little more on (remote) systems administration and remain open for creative criticism. > With Warm Regards, > Shivkumar -- Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman (http://werc.homelinux.net/contact/) _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
