Re: why not like linux ?

From: Maxim S. Shatskih (maxim_at_storagecraft.com)
Date: 05/18/04 

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 00:37:35 +0400

> Is this handbook updated since 1994? Most ( if not all ) of your
> statements are either outdated or even where never true. Is this your
> basis of discussion?

The handbook is really around 80% obsolete, but sorry, X11, NFS and swapping
scheme are still such. To name a few.

> Want to compare CMD with bash? Oh, come on.

bash would only benefit if it would do no wildcard expansion, offloading this
to a C runtime call in the app itself. More flexibility for the app writer.
Lesser idiocies when the expansion result is treated as a flag.

> You can not only use one swapfile, you can use multiple swapfiles

In what UNIX? In FreeBSD?

> Windows has a partition scheme? Windows installer has a clue on how it
> can be installed on any partition on the drive? Come on, share your
> knowledge!

Just choose any partition formatted with Windows-supported FS, and all will be
fine. No such partition? Create one. No space to create? Sorry, you're out of
disk space, no OS can handle this.

> Huh? You mention RedHat and say the bear no responsibility over the kernel?

Surely no. The kernel is not RedHat's. It is Linus's.

Linus can be personally connected with RedHat, but sorry, I do not trust such
personal connections in the industry.

> Ah, this is the answer. You do not really know what you are talking
> about. If you use RedHat, you update the kernel with the RedHat update
> functionality and it will run.

Is it not open source? Can I take the source from the web, more so - from
maintainer site! - and build it? No? OK, RedHat is no more open source, and
thus starting to combine worst sides of both software models. 

-- 
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
maxim@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com

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