>
> On 13 Dec 1999, Alan Shutko wrote:
>
> > How can it be the new archiving standard if I've never heard of it.
>
> My sentiments exactly. :)
>
> > 8^) Do you have a link to any info on it somewhere?
>
> Not really, other than the man pages on UNIX systems. It is
> (or at least will be) part of POSIX, which is why I think we
> should have it.
>
IMHO what we should do is crush other Unixes and become the standard
instead of caring about Posix.
In many ways trying to blindly follow the Unix ways is hindering
Linux.
Because all of Unix is based on the implicit assumption the box is so
expensive that neither private individuals nor small offices can
afford it. Unix was non intuitive because its users had a coworker
they could ask 'How is the help command named?'. They rarely had to
learn unassisted like did the private individuals owning a PC or a Mac
It could afford utilities as difficult to configure as sendmail because
the Unix system administrator was a full time one and that was possible
because he worked in an organization big enough to have other people
going with real work. This is not possible in say, five person
companies.
Linux is not unaffordable by private individuals who need
intuitiveness nor by small companies who need a system where the
training investment is not so huge to require the system administrator
being a full time one.
It is time we think a bit less in Linux as a Unix clone and a bit more
as a system for personal computers and SOHOs.
--
Jean Francois Martinez
Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org
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