Hi,
James's suggestion makes sense, I posted to Slashdot, with some additions...
a number of them addressing your comments, a few others just because I can't
stop writing (sorry) :)
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From: Nicholas Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2... and the Linux mess (IMHO)
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>Excuse the off topic post, but... ;)
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>On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein wrote:
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>> Now, maybe this is not the appropriate list for the question, but I can't
>> get latest gnome working because of the infamous __register_frame_info
crap,
>> and moving to the glib 2.1 will cause other problems. The status of
system
>> libraris in Linux is becoming a MESS. Even when thing work, I hate being
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>Don't upgrade then, let someone else test the cutting edge stuff. The
>point of linux is that you have choise. In the commerical OS world, you
>never see the new libraries, until after the commerical application
>developers and OS developer have tested things.
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>In linux commerical distributions with commerical support, provide this to
>commerical requirements.
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>> The JDK is a good example of problems that will become more and more
common.
>> We can't get the sources (at least right now), so the binary-only
>> distribution must be bulletproof and work on a wide range of
installation.
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>I guess this is a good line for supporting OSS.
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>> produce a more stable and compatible system. In the current creature,
the
>> kernel-hand doesn't know what the C-hand does, the C-hand doesn't know
what
>> the X11-hand does and so on, and everybody releases updates of their
thing
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>This is IMHO is the free/open source (software 8) world's strenght. Not
>tried down by one group's (BG anyone) vision of the world.
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>Distribution development, just by it scalar is bound to run into problems
>like this. But then it's your choise where or not to be on the cutting
>edge.
>
>Nicholas
>--
> "I reserve the right to contradict myself"
>Nicholas Lee (Li Peng Ming) n.j.lee at statslab.cam.ac in uk
>Somewhere Out There
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