> Caldera did just that: drop from the main distrib those utilities they
> thought were playing in second division. Read also that I told that
Am I mistaken, or is Calder playing in the second division?
<GDR)
> if an utility had many users it should not be dropped. You could
> reverse my proposition and formulate it like this "only include a
> program used by few people if it is really outstanding". Normally
> great utilities with few users are those who are relatively new and
> they could need some promotion for them getting the user base they
> deserve. One example is Python where RedHat was probably the first
> distrib not only including it but basing config tools on it and thus
> attracting attention towards it.
O'm not sure that adding python to the mix was such a brilliant idea; I'm
having entirely enough trouble coming to terms with bash scripts, perl;
I've had a quick look at TCL and been left baffled.
>
> You also have to consider that too many redundant utilities tend to
> confuse the user specially new users. Look at the <censored> :-)
Too many utilities, redundant or otherwise, confuse this user. Nonetheless
I acknowledge that those that do baffle me (awk, TCL, m4...) have their
uses and adherents.
One thing we Linux can't complain about is lack of something to learn.
Perhaps we'll all be saved by DVD. I read that Toshiba's shipping DVD and
not CD drives in all ots prtables RSN. presumambly by RHL 8.x a DVD distro
will be an option.
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