Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261750AbVEUQjU (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2005 12:39:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261754AbVEUQjU (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2005 12:39:20 -0400 Received: from mxout.hispeed.ch ([62.2.95.247]:17024 "EHLO smtp.hispeed.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261750AbVEUQjO (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2005 12:39:14 -0400 Message-Id: <428F644A.3000801@khandalf.com> Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 18:39:38 +0200 From: "Brian O'Mahoney" Reply-To: omb@bluewin.ch User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog References: <200505201345.15584.pmcfarland@downeast.net> <428E70B3.1050007@khandalf.com> <20050521073826.GR5112@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20050521073826.GR5112@stusta.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Md5-Body: d44a9a44bcc72adba85d5bbfae7fcc3d X-Transmit-Date: Saturday, 21 May 2005 18:39:53 +0200 X-Message-Uid: 0000b49cec9dad000000000200000000428f6459000b75c800000001000a3901 Replyto: omb@bluewin.ch X-Sender-Postmaster: Postmaster@80-218-57-125.dclient.hispeed.ch. Read-Receipt-To: omb@bluewin.ch X-DCC-spamcheck-02.tornado.cablecom.ch-Metrics: smtp-02.tornado.cablecom.ch 32701; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1328 Lines: 37 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 01:20:19AM +0200, Brian O'Mahoney wrote: > >>... >>Finally SUN should move from the pkg* abortion, written by idiots >>at AT&T, some 25 years ago to RPM. > > > In my personal experience, the Solaris packages are quite usable. > > I don't claim they were perfect, but do you have compelling reasons why > you call the people who developed it "idiots"? The point I made was that SUN do support/use the GNU toolchain internally, and everyone has used GNU on SUN since they started to charge for the Solaris C compiler in the 80's. They also have RPM and it is only recently they integrated Perl and I object to this attitude whether it comes from SUN or MicroSoft As to pkg* just look at what is missing/deficient -v- any OpenSource tool, which was desingned by those that were going to _use_ it not just tick a check box It is typical of the period in which AT&T had more Marketeers and Lawers working on Unix that there were developers. These were the guys who helped to start the Unix wars. -- mit freundlichen Gr??en, Brian. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/