Hi,
>>"George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
George> People that are not Unix SysAdmin's by trade or hobby are not
George> going to give a rat's pair of hips what version of libc they
George> have. People have a job to do that usually does not involve
George> spending hours of learning a lot of little anal-retentive
George> details about the inner workings of their systems.
Hmm. I call it getting to know the tools of your trade. I
would not hire a builder that did not know how to use a saw, or was
not at all concerned what size nails they were using. I would not
hire a sysadmin who did not learn about the system
And nobody is talking about "hours of learning" when it comes
to versioning. However, anyone who balks at learningt is not likely
to remain technically current anyway.
George> There are two choices. Make a techno-geek distribution that
George> is a maze of details and requires hours of reading and place
George> a big warning on the website along the lines of "Stupid
George> Windows Users keep the hell out of here, we do not want you
George> or your silly-assed quaestions" (which is what I heard during
George> the course of this thread) OR you can provide a simple system
George> of versioning that spceifies compliance to things like the
George> FHS and LSB that will make things a lot easier for
George> application providers and users.
There are other choices than the extremes you present. Also, I
fail to see how a 3 character versioning system has anything to do
with being easier to specify compliance to FHS and the LSB than a 5
char numbering system.
Oh, you mean that red hat and suse and debian and caldera
shall have the same version number? Hah!.
There are differences between the distributions. Rather than
attempting to hide tem by simplistic subterfuges like giving them the
same version number, we should instead be educating the masses.
Or else you'll have to field questions like: I bough Linux
3.3.3 from Caldera, and Linux 3.3.3 from Debian, and how come they
are not the same? How come Debian does not come with wordperfect?
manoj
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