Am 01.02.2013 19:34, schrieb Joe Zeff: > On 02/01/2013 06:41 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: >> >> And it will approach 1 for *any* such distro. Changing distros doesn't >> help this problem, unless you go to one of the minimal distros that are >> still oriented towards simplified manual configuration (if there is such >> a one nowadays). > > AIUI, Slackware probably comes closest. Maybe we should design a distro with no configuration tools, GUI or text > and call it "Luddite Linux," just to see how many people use it. I'll bet there will be people installing it just > for the bragging rights of "see how old-school my Linux box is." no - for the bragging rights not PERMANENTLY get knowledge destroyed because all the happy shiny new things are not only change their internals, no they ALWAYS change their configuraion interface compared with the things they replace this si a really dumb attitude in the last few years there are even command-line tools suggested to replace well known ones with completly different switches this is not how a replacement works the guys which designed unix did a damned good job their base worked over decaeds, was understandable and had a well documanetation and a lifetime where the time to learn things worth - these days you must be an idiot trying to undrstand how the new shiny crap really works because before you finished your study they all replaced again _______________________________ the reason? lazy and dumb developers with a poor attitude how software should behave because if they would make things longliving it would take more time and maybe get finished someday - no this must not happen, things must not be final, never because after that the new generation of developers would be bored
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