On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On 16 Jun 2013, at 17:22, "Sampsa Laine" <sampsa at mac.com> wrote: At least with the BSDs you have like 3 variants. Why do these morons insist there must be 300+ ways to package a kernel and the same userland tools? Same reason we have a startup bubble right now: community (or school counsellor) pressure. This also applies to the media saying: this is great for the soul!" sampsa <sampsa at mac.com> mobile +961 788 10537 On 17 Jun 2013, at 00:18, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On 16 Jun 2013, at 17:15, "Sampsa Laine" <sampsa at mac.com> wrote: http://www.sampsa.com/2013/06/16/linux-wannabe-devs-the-few-the-brave-the-s… sampsa <sampsa at mac.com> mobile +961 788 10537 Linux is 95% politics, 3% needless ABI/API changes, 1% new features, 1% championing a twisted version of freedom. This generally applies to both the kernel and the distros...Linux inherited the nonstandard standards and incompatibility-across-distros thing from UNIX unfortunately. :( LSB is NOT standard...RedHat is also not the Gold Standard for a commercial linux or a linux period. Hello! Why not ask Google(!) regarding the different penguins who cover the planet? That's one reason. The other reason is that its different. And appropriate. Linux is different so it needs its own individual packaging system. Why does a Hat and a Lizard agree on packaging schemes? Or for that matter why do so many anarchists agree on one thing? The licensing scheme. Sampsa I admire your efforts for that post on your blog, but when you consider that someone needed to do something first, there's a reason for everything. One talented individual had an interesting philosophy and it boils down to one thing, "Let's be unreasonable.". ---- But this does not explain Cory why your entire house is surrounded by several bored and very hungry Yetis? And it does not explain why Sampsa there is something resembling a rock digging through things all around your flat. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."