🚀 go-pugleaf

David Goh wrote:
> 
> In aus.computers.linux, on Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:02:00 GMT
> Brian Mueller <mulder78@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >Wally Barnes wrote:
> >>Simply put, Linux doesn't suffer from Bill Gates and his company. It suffers
> >>from people who find it better to complain about the lack of support/development
> >>,when they should get up off their tails and do it themselves.
> >What about people who are not programmers? SOL, huh?
> >(sol = shit out of luck)
> 
> To be quite brutally honest?  Yes.
> 
> As someone else said also... The linux kernel is a by programmers for
> programmers thing.  If you have a problem with a driver that doesn't exist,
> then write one.  If you find one that's buggy, then poke the guy
> that wrote it, or write a patch.
> 
> The only reason I haven't done either, is that I carefully researched what
> hardware *was* already supported when I put together my PC.
> 
> *shrug* Linux (the kernel) is *not* "unix for dummies".
> 
> That said... I happen to believe Linux *distributions* can
> be "unix for dummies".  I see no reason for prevent distribution makers
> from making nice package management tools, nice upgrade mechanisms, nice
> system administration tools, and putting them all together in a package,
> together with the latest stable Linux kernel they can find, and voila, a
> "unix for dummies" system.
> 
> Yggdrasil does this, and to an extent, so does RedHat.  Slackware
> doesn't... I'm not sure about debian, not having used it myself.
> 
> But, the basic point is:
> 
> The Linux *kernel* is a rather different kettle of fish to the Linux
> *distribution*.
> 
> If you have a problem with a lack of support for something in the Linux
> kernel, then fix it yourself, or collaborate with some people who are
> already doing things to fix it, or pay someone to write a driver for you.
> 
> The thing is *copyleft*ed.  This means that the released kernel code is all
> free.  Ergo, noone gets paid for it.  People write parts of it out of the
> goodness of their own hearts.  Hence, noone has a right to criticise anybody
> for things that are not supported, because hey... Noone cares enough to
> write the driver.  Tough.  Those that *have* written stuff deserve thanks,
> not damnation for "not doing enough".
> 
> Later,
> 
>    David
> 
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> David Goh            Software Engineer
> david@unico.com.au      (03) 9866 5688

Amen!

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