Re: Mailman in Perl (Re: the list is dead, long live the list)

[Greg McCarroll]

* Shevek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
> 
> > rely on RPMs.  The real reason I haven't switched is because it's really
> > *nasty* trying to switch from one distro to another without a) losing
> > valuable config data and b) ending up with a ton of unused junk on the disk
> > which is nigh-on impossible to tell apart from stuff that's in use.
> 
> I had always committed to the nature of Unix being that one does end up
> with a pile of stuff on disk which one doesn't use. The point is that this
> doesn't matter. Unless you're upgrading something every day or every week,
> the junk pile-up on a production server won't do much more than double or
> treble the hard disk usage of the OS, which will be small compared to the
> user data, and is still in a small order of magnitude.
> 

exactly, i was having a chat with a colleague the other day about hard
disk usage over the years, and i noted that my home directory took
up 10Gb's and that was excluding the 15Gb mp3 partition, he  responded
saying that he had filled up his data partition (20Gb) already, shocked
that he had used so much i queried him further it appeared that the
data he had stored was all game installls

it seems that win32 users consider computers to be software orientated
while unix users consider computers to be data orientated

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Greg McCarroll                          http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net