Re: RedHat = MS-Linux???

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

George Bonser wrote:
> Yes, Red Hat is well on the way to becoming Microsoft-like Linux. They 
> screech their shrill cries of "But everything we do is open source" but 
> when you look at it you also find that it is also incompatable with every 
> other distro and would take so much trouble to modify as to being just as 
> easy to completely rewrite it ... the right way. 
>
> I tried porting the Red Hat GUI printer management stuff to Debian once
> but gave up once I realized that it was going to take more than a couple
> of hours and involve modifying several files. That was about a year ago, I
> am not sure if they have cleaned it up since then.

I can't see this as anything but redhat bashing. I happen to maintain the
package of rpm for debian (since I maintain alien, which uses rpm). I
haven't considered rpm expecially difficult to "port" (definitly a misnomer)
to debian.

Looking at the debianized source of rpm, I do notice I've modifed some 10 or
20 files. Thinking back, this did take more than a couple of hours. But
compared to many other things I've debianized, it was cake.

I'm not interested in participating in yet another redhat flame war. I'm
speaking up only to say that I think the fact you base this posting on are
flawed.

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