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Do we need this crap on LWN?Do we need this crap on LWN?Posted Feb 22, 2007 13:35 UTC (Thu) by ofeeley (subscriber, #36105)In reply to: Do we need this crap on LWN? by markc Parent article: ESR's goodbye note
"One of the reasons this won't happen is because of rpm
It's a pity you ruined an interesting post with a personal attack. I don't think that asking for particular information as to the specific advantages of a system that I'm largely unfamiliar with, and correcting your mistaken impression that there are few rpm packages is fanboyism. I agree that a single packaging format would be useful in terms of reducing apparently duplicated effort.
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Do we need this crap on LWN? Posted Feb 22, 2007 14:13 UTC (Thu) by markc (guest, #4419) [Link] > It's a pity you ruined an interesting post with a> personal attack.
Thanks for pointing that out, I'll try and keep a more impersonal
>> FWIW, I can only speak from personal experience.
This was a dedicated host with a kernel that probably came default with a
>> I recently got a VPS with Debian 3.1 installed,
This was indeed a recent experience on a Virtuozo VPS with a 2.6.9 kernel.
>> I have one box that has been up for 464 days
This one, I think, is a custom rolled kernel with devfs compiled in and I
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