Debian flamewar (plus a "GNU/Linux" rant)

[Kevin D. Clark]

Benjamin Scott <bscott at ntisys.com> writes:

>   And, again, it's also largely responsible for why Windoze sucks so much.  
> When everything a binary which you have no source for, and no two packages
> share information on what is being installed, and you can only install one
> version of any given library at once time -- then, yah, it's a minor kind of
> miracle the thing ever works at all.

You haven't lived until you realize that the poor slobs three cubes away from
you have 6 copies of the "same" DLL, which they categorize by file
size.  When they want to run application A, they copy the X-byte DLL
to the system directory.  When they want to run application B, they
copy the Y-byte DLL to the system directory.  You hear people yelling
things like "NO...DON'T RUN THE APPLICATION WITH THE 9689-byte DLL --
IT CORRUPTS THE DATABASE!".

Things like this cause me to weep.

--kevin
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