[geeks] A Real OS? (was: Re: my capitalization.. etc.)

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 22:12, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Sat, 18 May 2002, Eric Dittman wrote:
> 
> Okay, I'll bite...
> 
[nibble]
> > I think what hurts *BSD most is the fragmentation.
> 
> Only if you think that more than one BSD is too many.  They each have
> their focus areas.  I kind-of like that.
> 
> Contrast this to the Linux distributions, where you basically have
> Slackware which tries to be BSD, Debian which tries to be Stallman's fan
> club, RedHat (I still haven't figured out their angle), and an uncountable
> number of "it's like RedHat but with a different $feature $characteristic"
> distributions.
> 
> Yes, the kernel is unfragmented (except for the non-Linus patch
> collections), but that doesn't amount to anything if the environment's
> different everywhere.  And the LSB doesn't address issues like RPM vs DEB
> vs TGZ and init schemes and lots of other administration topics.

Uh, it doesn't?  I suggest that you go re-read the LSB and FHS again
(I'd use the HTML versions on the Debian website, the others are only
available in PDF).  The LSB addresses both of those topics.
	Greg

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