Les Mikesell wrote:
Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:28:22AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> However, there are conceptual differences in system administration so
>> it is somewhat painful to jump back and forth between ubuntu and an
>> RPM based system with redhat-style configuration frequently.
>
> True; but if you've lived in Unixland before, this is nothing new. BSD
> vs. SVR2 vs. AIX vs. Solaris... It's just part of the landscape.
Sure, but there were reasons that SysV, AIX, Solaris, HPUX etc. didn't
share the best way do everything. Among opensource builds of
essentially the same upstream packages there's less excuse to maintain
intentional differences.
You're right. We should just pick the best package manager and make
everyone use it.</sarcasm>
Matt Flaschen