Re: OS X packaging is an embarrassment

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From: Martin Ebourne
Subject: Re: OS X packaging is an embarrassment
Date: 08:55 on 22 May 2006
On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 19:43 -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> Linux kernel configuration, however...

Whatever are you doing that requires you to configure the kernel??

The only time I've had to do that in recent memory was to fix a broken
DSDT when I bought a bleeding edge laptop. Even that was worked around a
couple of kernel versions later - are we expecting the kernel team to
fortune tell on what hardware vendors might break next? Some linux
distros don't even need a recompile for a broken DSDT anyway.

I run Fedora on a range of hardware and really don't recognise any of
the problems you're reporting. But then you don't seem to have used any
Linux machines seriously since, well, five years ago? Sure some of the
complaints were valid then (and still are on some distros) but all the
mainstream ones are with it these days. And all are improving faster
than any other OS on the planet, so soon they'll be way ahead (and they
already are in a number of areas).

Cheers,

Martin.

PS. I actually found linux kernel config really rather easy last time I
did it. Download the .src.rpm, install it (using the normal package
install command), tweak the .config file and rpmbuild it. Then it
installs using my normal package manager and is handled just like a
distro package. I've never seen any other OS I could do that on in less
than 4 steps.

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