Re: linux _still_ sucks

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: linux _still_ sucks
Date: 17:17 on 16 Jan 2004
> I'd say that OS X is not-quite-entirely unrelated to essentially any other
> Unix OS.

SystemStarter is not the same as /etc/rc.conf, but that stuff is
different for every system. And Netinfo isn't YP or PAM, but that
stuff is different for everything too. Mostly it looks just about
every other Mach/BSD merge I've ever futzed with.

> At least when I
> struggle through linux crap I can reuse that knowledge at work, but when I
> struggle through OS X crap (you know, netinfo, maintaining resource forks
> in CLI tools, that kind of thing) it will never help me at work.

So don't struggle with that crap, just use it. I mean, what's BeOS going
to do for you?

>     "What is the sound of Perl?  Is it not the sound of a wall that
>      people have stopped banging their heads against?"
>                 --Larry Wall in <1992Aug26.184221.29627@xxxxxxx.xxx>

No. Perl has great roaring turbines of suck that I'm tired of banging my head
against. BTDT been turned into a thin red mist.

There's stuff above here

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