The ponytail versus the penguin (Economist) [LWN.net]

The ponytail versus the penguin (Economist)

Posted May 26, 2003 16:10 UTC (Mon) by NerdlyMcGeek (guest, #8453)
Parent article: The ponytail versus the penguin (Economist)

Linux is like a puppy - in the beginning it's great, but you also have to take care of it,' says Mr Schwartz.

And like you don't have to maintain Solaris? I update with apt and a cron job. Just point apt at your own repository, add to it as needed and go back to sleep.. Now where was I ..zzz zzzzz zzzzzzz...zzz

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The ponytail versus the penguin (Economist)

Posted May 27, 2003 17:47 UTC (Tue) by ruiner (guest, #11482) [Link] (1 responses)

He was comparing Solaris to Linux (probably Redhat), not Debian.

Updating Linux

Posted May 29, 2003 3:01 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (guest, #4458) [Link]

Like Red Hat has no up2date? Come on, (semi)automatic updates are in _all_ current versions of leading distributions