[HECnet] Humour - Unix Haters Guide now up on CHIMPY:: !

On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Dave McGuire wrote: On 10/03/2013 10:32 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: I'm not saying I hate linux for servers...I just hate RHEL and Red Hat as a company. ;) Oh ok. I'll back you on that point. (though they were nice enough to give some very fine hardware a few years ago...) How much junk mail do they send after giving the hardware? ;) Huh? I didn't get any. But then I don't think they ever had my address. Ah. I get lots of junk mail and email from 'em after trying their stupid Linux certification practise tests. They were not vender agnostic. Gross. I hate junk mail. No, I went to their headquarters with a truck and picked up some big iron. One of their guys has my email address, but they never got my postal address. It's different now anyway. Ahh. Yup. A lot different now. I can agree with that. One just can't get much better than "apt-get". I'd agree. While apt-get isn't my favourite of the package managers (does it support delta package updates yet?) I willl certainly prefer it to yum. (You should poke at alpine's APK if you like apt-get) Nah...I'll learn it if I need to, but right now I don't. I have lots of other stuff that I need to digest. Ahh. It has a plan to work on embedded stuff. You might need it one day. Hmm. I tend to program on bare metal, or with a lightweight RTOS (see FreeRTOS, I've used that in a number of designs), I generally don't embed Linux. Yeah, Linux isn't exactly suited for embedded stuff in my opinion...too big personally. I do prefer RTOSes for that but when I need an "embedded" linux i'd have to choose alpine. But that sort of package management in that environment sounds like a nice idea. It helps with running tiny OSes for say: Xen. (VMWare doesn't like SVM on my system...Xen is fine with it and it gives me more control...unless I retrofit my own userland in to vmware.) -Dave -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects