Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:32:46 +1000 | From | Daniel Stone <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Single user linux |
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:20:27PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:07:48AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > What real value does it have, apart from the geek "look at me, I'm using > > bash" value? > > I don't really want to get into it at the moment, but imagine hacking > netfilter without lugging a laptop around. PDA's are sleek and cool, > and using UNIX on them lets you write shell scripts to sort your > addresses and stuff like that. Basically it's everything that's cool > about Unix as a workstation OS scaled down to PDA-size.
True, but then imagine trying to hack C (no, that's a CURLY BRACE, and a tab! not space! you just broke my makefiles! aargh!), and compiling Netfilter (it takes HOW MANY hours to compile init/main.c?!?) on a PDA. Hrmz.
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