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- From: Mark Komarinski <komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>
- Subject: Re: Stabilizing Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.150646.22412@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Reply-To: komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:06:46 GMT
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- (I guess it's about time I jump into this stuff...:) )
-
- On Aug 9, 7:27pm, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
- } Subject: Re: Stabilizing Linux
- |
- | This is why a Linux committee would not terribly productive; if it's
- | composed of people who do nothing more than demand that volunteers spend
- | even more of their time working on it, so that it becomes "acceptable"
- | --- it won't work, and it will only breed resentment on both sides. If
- | it is composed of those who are actually doing the work --- well, those
- | who are already doing the work currently have the say about what their
- | work produces; why have a committee to formalize such things?
-
- Having a committee would at least *try* to keep both sides happy.
- Or, if we Russ Nelson's idea about a 'paid programmer' to make an official
- release/etc, this committee could help him (or her...) get what both groups
- eventually want: a stable, working system.
-
- |
- | Guys (and Gals) ---- release engineeering is hard work, and in general
- | no fun. You should be thanking those people who have been putting
- | together the MCC release, the TAMU release, or the MJ release, not
- | complaining about how the maintainers should be putting even more of
- | their free time into it. If you're not satisifed with the quality of
- | those releases, put one together yourself! If it's better than all the
- | others, everyone will start using it.
- |
-
- ...but some are not updated, some are confusing, etc. Why not have one
- release that has everything? A bunch of files that can be rawritten
- to a disk or something. Update these files biweekly and plop them on the
- major FTP sites. It will at least get all the newbies all on the right
- track. Patches can be distributed biweekly also for whomever wants to
- update their system.
-
- | As for system administration tools --- that is still an unsolved
- | problem; I have yet to see a general purpose system administrator's tool
- | that works in all environments; handles everything that a potential
- | sysadmin might want to do; and doesn't get in the way of an experienced
- | administrator. Why are people demanding that Linux provide a solution
- | to an unsolved research problem?
-
- Because a bunch of people (myself included) have never been sysadmins, and
- have no clue how a system should be run. (But I'm grabbing some books
- and trying to learn instead of yelling about it :) )
-
- -Mark
-
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