8 Mar
2005
8 Mar
'05
5:10 p.m.
Hello,
A not so good opinion of Open source...
http://www.ranum.com/editorials/divide-conquer/
Paulo
@+
Regardless of the validity of the argumentation, am I the only one who
thinks that guy is saying: "Democracy doesn't work, so let's pick a good
dictatorship." ?
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8 Mar
8 Mar
5:28 p.m.
New subject: article by Marcus Ranum
Vincent Bremaud wrote:
Regardless of the validity of the argumentation, am I
the only one who
thinks that guy is saying: "Democracy doesn't work, so let's pick a good
dictatorship." ?
Isn't that true, anyway?
On the 'dictatorship' side, you find successful projects like Slackware
and Python. An 'enlightened' dictator leads these very successfully.
On the 'democracy' side, have fun with the Debian release schedule...
-pu
9 Mar
9 Mar
9:11 p.m.
New subject: article by Marcus Ranum
Patrick Useldinger wrote:
On the 'democracy' side, have fun with the
Debian release schedule...
Until now, it may not have been a big problem, if you didn't need a
current and stable system at the same time. But now the slow release
schedule may introduce a severe problem. Sarge uses DEVFS, a system
which has created some problems on the driver level, created race
issues, is not maintained anymore and may even be removed from the main
kernel tree by mid 2005 according to Linus Torvalds. A switch to udev is
out of question according to some Debian developers as this switch would
delay the release of Sarge by additional 2 years. So Sarge will stick to
DEVFS, which means a considerable load increase to the Debian security
team, which will have to maintain DEVFS themselves and will have to
backport security fixes to obsolete software packages.
Greetings, Patrick Kaell
10 Mar
10 Mar
9:13 a.m.
New subject: article by Marcus Ranum
Patrick Kaell wrote:
Until now, it may not have been a big problem, if you
didn't need a
current and stable system at the same time. But now the slow release
schedule may introduce a severe problem. Sarge uses DEVFS, a system
which has created some problems on the driver level, created race
issues, is not maintained anymore and may even be removed from the main
kernel tree by mid 2005 according to Linus Torvalds. A switch to udev is
out of question according to some Debian developers as this switch would
delay the release of Sarge by additional 2 years. So Sarge will stick to
DEVFS, which means a considerable load increase to the Debian security
team, which will have to maintain DEVFS themselves and will have to
backport security fixes to obsolete software packages.
I wasn't specifially criticising Debian, but mentionning it as a
counter-example of an efficient process.
The Linux kernel is another good example of 'good dictatorship', isn't it?
-pu
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