Peng’s links for Friday, 1 August
Posted by Peng on 1 August 2008
- Stefano Forenza: Launchpad needs a Wiki. I’m kind of surprised Launchpad doesn’t have a Wiki. It also needs to be hosted on the servers with Launchpad. To pay a third party just to host the wiki is silly, plus it you have to worry about the possibility of the server going down. Believe me, it does happen.
- Aaron Toponce: For The Love of Unix. Have you seen a post where someone asks for assistance and the stock response was “go back to [insert software/OS here]“? Let’s forget for a minute how flat out rude that is. It also does absolutely nothing to further the software/operating system concerned. Let’s start assisting users of software we use by making new users actually want to ask for help. Trashing someone simply because they are having a problem (let alone be cause they don’t like the latest update) is pretty childish.
- Chris Jones: Software fail. Chris sends an open letter to commercial Unix/Linux software vendors, and rants about an utterly idiotic thing they do without cursing once. I doubt I would have been able to do that.
Have a good weekend, y’all.
jldugger said
I have to say, while it doesn’t curse once, it’s not very productive either. It’s marginally disrespectful and certainly not collaborative. I hope the diary was cathartic enough that he can move on and get stuff done.
Chris Jones said
Jldugger makes a good point. I reworded it as a positive suggestion that ISVs work with community/distrovendors in a more collaborative way when it comes to packaging.
I’ve noticed that a lot of people are talking about just using VM appliances for things, and this is an orthogonal issue – such VMs will only be really easy to keep up to date with security/bugfix updates if they are packaged not only how the rest of the system is, but also granularly instead of in a monolithic fashion.