Re: new to linux
You don't get it yet Jamrock ?
You have said before you don't care whats underneath.... I do.
This is the same thing that MS users do... they don't care whats under the box while nut cases like me do. People plug stuff togther and say IT WORKS THATS IT !
I am an electrician... and by default that discipline spills over into my computing. I must know how it works and it must be standard or I could DIE.
If some guy wires an isntallation wrong and I come into contact with it... because he breaks standards I could get electrocuted... it has happened before... just because the customer does not see it or cares about it does not mean it is right. As long as it works for the customer thats not enough !! as a professional for me their is more.
If I break standards as an electrician I could have my license (sp) revoked !
Thus the problem is, returning to the computer talk, at the end of the day they are no better off than if they installed Windows because Windows does the same thing.
Your the one that says you like standards... but if you only new half of the dirty evil crap thats in the belly of the redhat beast you would understand why I don't like it one bit.
the do stuff just to make things work and it screw up people like me who like to work under the belly.
This is the factor... the key one.
REDHATE BREAKS STANDARDS
linux standards Like the all important LFS
You have to learn the readhat way of doing things as opposed to the LINUX way.. and this is why I dispise them.
I will push ANY distro aside from RH. I don't care what... I would even push slackware... but until RH stops being COCKY and PRETENTIOUS and re-groups to obeying the standards set by the Linux GRASS ROOTS people until it stops scoffing at the very core of programmers that make the fundamental elements of its programs....
I will revile them as the Microsoft of Linux.
everytime I install mozilla on and RH system the files are installed in /usr instead of /opt ! why ?
Last edited by Gillion; Jan 31, 2005 at 05:07 PM.
Those who do not understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it poorly.