On Mon, 09 Apr 2001, you wrote:
> What a horrible thought :P A binary registry is the last thing GNU/Linux
> needs and I have heard several quite significant people quite rightly
> say "over my dead body".
WOW that was the response that I know and love.
> Having said this, IMO there is not too much wrong with a "registry"
> which is text based and then gets turned in to a binary version when
> changes are made (like mail alias files, etc.) however one has to ask -
> what's the point? Personally I could see a use for a directory structure
> within /etc which stored certain information within subdirectories...but
> then we already have NIS and friends.
This is Newbie bit that is still looking an learning the tree. SO missed this
point. ;) /etc is the etc stuff I am gussing that pr. arghh that make sense.
Just bashed the /etc I know now. what You mean.
>
> > I find that I don't want the windows thing now.
>
> I have been Free since 1995.
>
> I'm not weird honest, I just hate windows more than most things and I'm
> sorry if this comes through so strongly...
Not at all. I am getting this vocal too.
One of the first moments that I truely found how deep the whole MS the hardware
manufactor tie up went was with Modems.
Arr WinModems. And the point is.
Oh yes it cheaper for the Manufacturer. Money had to be there somewhere.
All hail open source and free computing.
Linux just is. It is the way of things.
Regards,
Jason
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