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The value of middlemen

Posted Aug 13, 2004 0:42 UTC (Fri) by bignose (subscriber, #40)
In reply to: The value of middlemen by ewan
Parent article: The value of middlemen

> > There are good reasons why Red Hat and Debian (for example) are not
> > identical. [...] Which one, overweening, system would you have us all
> > use?
> > One shared linux friendly fork of cdrecord, not one version of linux.

A case in point for the confusion caused by saying "Linux" when one means "GNU".

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Posted Aug 13, 2004 2:44 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

I don't think this is a case in that point.

This is a rare case where the relevant characteristic of the systems in question is a matter of the Linux kernel. One of the issues is the way the user identifies the CDROM drive and how the program accesses it. That's pure Linux kernel.

Neither that nor the other issue -- DVD writing -- seem to have any connection to GNU software.