On 10/29/06, Richard Elling - PAE <Richard.Elling at sun.com> wrote:
> Paul Kraus wrote:
> > Sorry if this sounds like a rant, but this is one of the very
> > few areas where I think the Linux community has done a better job than
> > Sun.
> >
>
> I'm not sure I agree with this, and it certainly does not jive
> with my Linux distro experience. Rather, I'd say that they have a
> different grainularity of packaging, but see the same problems.
My Linux experience is currently mostly with SuSE / SLES /
SLED and I think that Novell has done a aweful lot to mature that
Linux environment. I also played wth RedHat back in the 6.x days. I
realize that the smaller Linux distributions may not be as clean. I
figure the closest thing to a 'Sun' in the Linux world is Novell.
Now as to patching and OS updates ... if Novell would stop
changing mechanisms I would be a lot happier (YaST Online Update, then
Red Carpet, now Zen..). Sun's basic patches have always been very
strong (although they lack the automated dependency tree stuff unless
you use tools beyond patchadd ... I've written a few scripts to deal
with that).
> BTW, if you can solve this for both backwards and forwards compatibility
> with completeness for a population of tens of thousands of developers,
> then let's start working on world hunger.
> -- richard
>
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Paul Kraus
