On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 00:13 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
> Lots of things in a modern system are far removed from the stuff a unix
> sysadmin has traditionally dealt with. That doesn't make it necessarily
> "bad". And as Seth pointed out, this "all new is bad" or
"all new is
> good" dichotomy is a part of the problem
>
>
But if a system claiming to be new/better can't provide more or less
exact emulation of the system it wants to replace, it probably really
isn't better.
That statement is based on the incorrect assumption that the way things
used to be is/will be sane for the way things are going. Sometimes you
just need to do things differently because what we grew up doing just
doesn't work any more.
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