Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932179AbVJHWZU (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Oct 2005 18:25:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932182AbVJHWZT (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Oct 2005 18:25:19 -0400 Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:40428 "HELO embla.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932179AbVJHWZR (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Oct 2005 18:25:17 -0400 Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 00:27:09 +0200 To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Cc: Michael Concannon , Chase Venters , Marc Perkel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? Message-ID: <20051008222709.GA30627@aitel.hist.no> References: <20051002204703.GG6290@lkcl.net> <200510041840.55820.chase.venters@clientec.com> <20051005102650.GO10538@lkcl.net> <200510060005.09121.chase.venters@clientec.com> <43453E7F.5030801@concannon.net> <20051006192857.GV10538@lkcl.net> <4345855B.3@concannon.net> <20051006212001.GZ10538@lkcl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051006212001.GZ10538@lkcl.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Helge Hafting Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1335 Lines: 30 On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:20:01PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:13:15PM -0400, Michael Concannon wrote: > > > 1. It _is_ a file: registry.dat > > 2. It is a binary file at that... > > 3. That file has become a dumping ground for everything that every app > > thinks is "important" and of course every app writer thinks everything > > they write is the most important thing ever - I am sure a have never > > done such a thing :-) > > s/"that file"/"openldap" and substitute "every app writer" > for "every major free software developer we respect greatly which > can store its data and/or configuration details in an LDAP database" > and your evident distaste for "that file" looks a little like religious > zealotry. > Well, there are many differences between the windows registry and openldap on unix. First, openldap is voluntary. There are plenty of linux systems not using ldap at all, and still using whatever apps they want. People deploy ldap when they think the benefits outweighs the added complexity. :-) Helge Hafting - 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/