Re: why not like linux ?

From: Arne Caspari (arnem_at_tzi.de)
Date: 05/18/04 

Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 23:34:32 +0200

Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:

>>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.

No wildcard expansion? Ever heard of quoting? Quote your arguments and
they won`t get expanded. What you suppose is less flexible but it
requires more work in the applications. Just to gain nothing since
expansion works fine the way it is.

>>You can not only use one swapfile, you can use multiple swapfiles
>
> In what UNIX? In FreeBSD?

I would not be surprised if it is in every modern UNIX but this talk was
about Linux, wasn't it?

>>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.

Been there, done that, installer failed. It does not really matter,
though. I got refund for the software and I really do not need Windows
on my home PC for anything I can imagine. For my home PC, Linux works
just fine the way it is - and It would be just as OK for me if it would
only be able to handle a swap partition instead of a swap file. And
guess what, even if X does not do the colorspace transform but the GTK
or whatever toolkit, it still works fine for me.

To earn my living, I use Windows though. And it Windows also works fine
for this task ( ok, being a WDM developer there are not very many
alternatives to Windows though ). And this is just what I want: To be
able to chose the system which fits my needs best.

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

Are you sure, your car manufacturer produced every little part of your
car? Very well possible that it even did not produce your car's engine.
So you say that your car manufacturer is not responsible for the enginge
in this car?

>>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.

You are ranting without knowledge of the topic. This is called a troll,
isn't it?

  -Arne

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