Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 May 2005 18:39:38 +0200 | From | "Brian O'Mahoney" <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog |
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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 Grüßen, Brian.
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