Re: kernel 2.2.0, portmap, ipx and so on

[Alan Cox]

> I understand that this BSDish vs SysVish is something like
> a holy war with no real solution. I wish RedHat and Debian

In the commercial world its a holy war that got settled by the "vendor
wants to automatically update" problem. Given sys5 style init versus the
great autoexec editing game of DOS people went th esame way

> had packages that would allow me to plug in BSDish init
> for when it's appropriate. And if Slackware would let me
> choose when installing...

Go ahead. Make a "slackhat". This is Linux you are encouraged to do so if
you think its the right thing to do.

Alan