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OpenCM Alpha6 Released

Posted by timothy on from the moving-things-around dept.

Jonathan S. Shapiro writes: "The new OpenCM Configuration Management system has just released it's first external alpha (0.1.0alpha6) over at opencm.org -- brought to you by the same folks who are working on the EROS operating system. Being a 0.1 alpha release, it shouldn't be used for prime time development yet, but it's definitely ready for a first look. We've been using it internally for OpenCM development for a while, and we have officially moved EROS development over. It looks like most of what needs to be done toward a first release is cosmetic at this point. Alpha6 has been tested on RedHat 7.3. Porting and cleanup are underway for solaris and (soon) *BSD. People seem to be excited about this -- especially the OpenBSD folks. While you are over at the web site, have a look at the two papers on OpenCM from this year's USENIX and USENIX Security conference."

2 of 39 comments (clear)

  1. not CVS, really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    I don't like Perl because it sucks. Why does it suck? It sucks because Larry Wall is not a computer scientist so he designed an ugly mish-mash of a language that is write-only. It is almost impossible to decipher a Perl script 6 months after it has been written.

    What is even more ironic is that Larry fancies himself some sort of "linguist" or "English" major. He went to college and read a couple books on Shakespeare so now he thinks he is some kind of language expert. Well it doesn't work that way.

    Take a look at Perl. Does it look like it was designed by anyone who knew anything about the English language? No, it doesn't. It honest-to-God looks like it was designed by someone who was an Egyptian hieroglyphics major who spent all his free time watching Star Trek -- in other words, someone completely disconnected with reality.

    So you can see why Perl sucks. Not to worry; there are other better languages to use. Try Python or Ruby, or gosh darn it -- Korn Shell. Any of these is better than Perl which should be relegated to set decoration for Raiders of the Lost Ark.

  2. Some Advice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Quit fuckin' around with this open sores shit and switch to .net!