> There are only two products to come out of Berkely: UNIX and LSD. We don't believe this is a coincidence.
I've seen this so many times i can't hardly believe it. You miss the joke! It should read "BSD and LSD". (As in BSD unix, original unix did not come from berkley, but from AT&T.)
Yeah, very smart. Lets stop developing all libraries. That will give us a great 'stability'.
New versions of libraries don't appear because their author wants to make a lot of trouble for everyone, they appear because the libraries get better. And because application writers wants to make better application they generally use newer libraries in newer versions of their programs.
Take gtk+ for example. If i want to make a gtk+ program that can drag and drop from netscape i *need* to use Gtk+ 1.2. Otherwise such a program wouldn't be possible to write (if you don't want to reimplement Gtk+ 1.2 in every application!).
Thus, with you 'stability' comes the problem that we can't make programs as good as we want, and that *sucks*.
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> There are only two products to come out of Berkely: UNIX and LSD. We don't believe this is a coincidence.
I've seen this so many times i can't hardly believe it. You miss the joke! It should read "BSD and LSD". (As in BSD unix, original unix did not come from berkley, but from AT&T.)
Yeah, very smart. Lets stop developing all libraries. That will give us a great 'stability'.
New versions of libraries don't appear because their author wants to make a lot of trouble for everyone, they appear because the libraries get better. And because application writers wants to make better application they generally use newer libraries in newer versions of their programs.
Take gtk+ for example. If i want to make a gtk+ program that can drag and drop from netscape i *need* to use Gtk+ 1.2. Otherwise such a program wouldn't be possible to write (if you don't want to reimplement Gtk+ 1.2 in every application!).
Thus, with you 'stability' comes the problem that we can't make programs as good as we want, and that *sucks*.
How come then that ericsson's new multi-million-dollar project the 'e-box' runs linux in an embedded system?
That's why creative hired Jon M Taylor to do linux device drivers.