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How to Fix the Unix Configuration Nightmare

Posted by Hemos on from the fixing-the-problem dept.

jacoplane writes: "There's an interesting article on freshmeat talking how sorting out some kind of standard for configuration could really help Unix systems could be more user friendly. The article points out that since Apple has managed to build a quite usable system on top of NetBSD, it should be doable to do the same for open-source interfaces."

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  1. The best first step....Retire sendmail by hey · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ... enough said

  2. Re:I /like/ the Unix Configuration Nightmare by osolemirnix · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Sorry. I had no intention to widen the page. Blame me for not checking the Preview properly.
    This clearly seems to be a bug though, as text with spaces should wrap around.

    So, instead of marking me as a foe, maybe file a bug report? Or at least a feature request for the checks in comments.pl
    :-)

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    Idempotent operation: Like MS software, wether you run it once or often, that doesn't make it any better.
  3. Re:I /like/ the Unix Configuration Nightmare by gazbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, no intention to blame you (notice that you were only in my foes list for the duration of my tests.

    You're right, it should be a bug report, but I'm too lazy to email anyone or submit a report, so I just publicised it and figured that somebody less pathetic than me would deal with it :-S

    I like to think of it as delegation...