beranger5ca at yahoo.com... , u have a problem with dag...and now it looks like u have a problem with linus torvalds himself.... u talk abt the need for cooperation,etc.... but you apparently dont get that 'you have to give respect to get respect' & 'give cooperation to get cooperation' relax bro. ----- Original Message ---- > From: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <beranger5ca at yahoo.ca> > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:51:54 AM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag > > > > led to the great compiler we have today. The same > > would hold for any large project (the kernel, firefox, etc.) > > And... are you happy with the quality of the huge $h1t which > is Firefox? Because I am not. > > As for the Linux kernel, they pushed in all kind of crap. > Back in 1996, I was running Linux with X in only 8 Megs of RAM! > Now, I doubt I could even boot with such a memory... > > Linux is not like Jesus. Linux is not "good", nor "great". > It's only "much less worse" than Windows, and marginally > better than the BSDs. > Of course, it's open source and so on. But it's a huge crap > like everything that's software nowadays. > > > > I fail to see why tens of micro repos are easier > > to maintain consistent than a large one. > > They're not. But at least you don't have to make people > get along. > > > > > 7,600 packages is really too much for a couple of > > people to > > > maintain. Unless it's scaled *down*... > > > > ...or scale the maintainers up. > > Still, 7,600 is unmaintainable. For their ~20k packages, > both Debian and Ubuntu use dozens and dozens of packages. > (And I won't mention the quality of Ubuntu's packages.) > As for TUV, they decided they can only support ~2.5k packages, > regardless of the fact that they're the #1 Linux company. > > I maintain that RF is way too large to be properly maintainable. >