Hi,
>>"George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
George> Well, it is obvious that some people here are just being hard
George> headed. I really do not think there are that many dummies
George> here. Look at it like this. A person wants Linux and decides
George> to spend about 30 minutes to choose which one they are going
George> to buy. These are sysadmins, not kernel programmers. They
George> take a quick glance, note that Red Hat is 5.2, Debian is
George> 2.0 and all the commercial apps ship configured for Red Hat, end of
George> decision making process. They see 2.0 Linux and 5.2 linux NOT Debian
2.0
George> and Red Hat 5.2 It is how their minds work.
Then I definitely do not think I want to support such
people. My time is better spent elsewhere. Anyone who spends merely
30 minutes to pick an OS, and makes a decision based on name/version,
deserves what they get, and would only clutter up whatever help
conduits we have.
George> The crux of the issue is not version numbers ... it is about
George> portability and standardization between Linux
George> distributions. If Debian and Red Hat share the same
George> filesystem layout and basic core libraries, applications will
George> be portable between them even though they look and feel
George> different.
Well, the minute Red Hat changes their version numbers and
starts following the Linux File system standards, we shall all be in
sync.
At the moment, moving to the new Linux File Heirarchy Stnadard
(FHS) is way more important than doing whatever the myriad different
distributions are doing. Standards. We follow them.
manoj
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