Re: How Linux becomes Windows
On Monday 10 December 2007, cothrige wrote:
> Dirk <noisyb@gmail.com> writes:
> > I won't start commenting on all this HAL, udev and similar
> > bullshit.
>
> I agree about HAL, and the thing really just makes me nervous. I was
> apparently right too, because when I turned it off via update-rc.d,
> my box started singing about somebody named Daisy.
Odd. Mine just said, "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave."
Personally, I just wish someone would have picked a different name. I
forgot whether it was an Ubuntu or Debian (not Stable) box I had set up
would not let me have a user named "hal" because of HAL. That gets
frustrating since that's what I use as my username on most of my own
systems. It's frustrating to not be able to use one's own name.
And, to be honest, I don't like seeing people talking about how much
they hate HAL. ;-)
> The one I really don't understand though is avahi. I kept seeing
> this in my ps output and really had no idea at all what it was. I
> tried to find out, but couldn't. Did the CIA write this thing?
> Finally I turned it off too, and nothing exploded so far. But, just
> what is all this stuff anyway? Personally, I thought avahi was some
> sort of fruity shampoo my wife uses.
A quick Wikipedia search (found it on my first try) gave me this:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_%28software%29>
A Google search turned up 47,000 hits.
"Apt-cache search avahi" returned 34 packages on my Ubuntu Fiesty
workstation. (I didn't try it on my Debian servers, I figure the point
has been made.)
Hal
(Who even has his name on his license, Virginia plates "HAL 9000".)
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