[cobalt-developers] Re: (OT) SPARCRaQ (cobalt-developers digest, Vol 1 #1392)

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On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 01:36:56PM -0800, cobalt-developers-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 23:45:15 +0000 (GMT)
> distributions, but packages are _not_ designed with one another
> in mind.

please try debian before saing that (howewer you are quite right
if you are talking about upsteam packages, but the work of a serious
distribution is exactly to put packages "with one another in mind")

> Linux having /bin and /sbin binaries depend on dynamic linking is
> stupid.

true, but there exists sash busybox-static e2fsck-static ...

> For upgrades, cvsup and "make world" are your friends.

apt-get is even better (both for source and for binary upgrades).
And yes, I use cvsupit and portupgrade on freebsd so I known of
make world, ports and semi aotomated ways of doing that.

> Thinks Windows and DLL Hell.

sorry but linux cannot be at this hell level (one *can* have different
versions of librariers)

> SPARC ISA is much cleaner than the x86 ISA.

besides I tink that on non-x86 buffer overflows are less
dangerous since such exploits usually try to execute memory areas 
which, by *hardware* design, can be declared non-executable
(There are *software* patches for Linux to try that, see for example
the grsecurity.net project, and to use some kind of mandatory
access control about which you were talking some lines above, 
see for example lids.org or the security enhanced
linux project by NSA)

> As someone with eight years Linux experience and a paltry two or
> three under BSD, I moved from Linux to BSD.

Wheen (and if) the debian on a bsd kernel project will be finished
I will possibly move (almost) all my linux and FreeBSD machines to that.
For now I think that a mix of debian linux and [Free|Open|Net]BSD is a 
reasonable choice for any experienced administrator. 
Y regret very much that Cobalt/Sun does not use the rpm porting
of apt-get for software upgrades.