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Re: shaper or whatever
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis)
Mon Jun 24 19:29:44 1996
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 16:07:14 -0400
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 10:29:25 -0400
> From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
>
> One thing that I really dislike about LINUX is that everything seems
> to find its way into the O/S. One of the biggest problems with
> developing under LINUX (and perhaps in maintaining stability?) is
> that every new "feature" makes it more difficult to figure out what
> the heck is going on.
>
>So what? This is a feature which you can enable, or don't have to. I
>also fail to see how this new feature makes it any harder to develop
>under Linux.
>
>I can how you might think it's bad that there might be a free
>implementation of what you had thought was a hard to implement,
>proprietary feature of your software, but as far as the rest of us is
>concerned, this is a feature, not a bug.... <grin>
No...it has to do with the fact that every time you touch something you
risk breaking it (if only accidentally). The more things that you touch the
more problems that can occur. Once things work its nice to not have to
touch them, thats all.
Dennis
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