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On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
> terrence d'souza wrote:
>
> > Very conveniently forget that Linux and OS is
> > based on standards and that the biggest violater
> > of standards is MS.
>
> Says who? Linux is based on accepted POSIX standards, but is anyone
> maintaining standards on new developments? None of the Linux distros
> have even managed to agree on an /etc/rc.d convention.
The reference should be towards M$'s policy of embracing and extending
standards in the process making their extended applications unable to
interoperate with existing accurate implementations of the standard.
The most recent example being M$'s kerberos implementation.
Linux manages to interoperate with most stuff under the sun quite well.
A differing /etc/rc.d would not render your server daemon unsable it
would just be called differently.
The issue of many distributions, many GUIs, fragmentation, hampering
growth has always cropped up. Linux seems to grow anyway. I guess it's
more choices and more freedom (and more fun).
- cnb.
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