[rescue] Mainframe on eBay

Phil Stracchino phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Fri Sep 30 11:40:20 CDT 2005


Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> The Linux hackers have no interest in a unified base Linux system, so
> there you go.  It would solve a lot of problems if they would make it
> happen.

Amen to that.  This is why so much experience does not generalize from,
say, Red Hat to Debian, or Slackware to SuSE.  They're almost different
OSen with many common features than they are different distributions of
the same OS.  Witness the whole quagmire of the Linux binary
compatibility standard.


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