Linux conceptual configuration problems

Avi Alkalay avibrazil at gmail.com
Sat Nov 6 11:25:53 UTC 2004


On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 02:37:56 -0800, Kenneth Porter
<shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote:
> --On Saturday, November 06, 2004 7:25 AM -0300 Avi Alkalay
> <avibrazil at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I see Linux today as many separated programs
> > that were forced to work together, but not designed to do so. So the
> > system as a whole is not integrated.
> 
> Don't forget that Linux is not Fedora. There are many flavors of Linux at
> many scales, from tiny embedded systems to massive clusters. Configuration
> machinery for one deployment may be inappropriate for another.

Of course.
But currently no massive cluster and no tiny deployment provides a way
to apps integrate themselves automatically through their
configurations. They allways have to ask users to manualy edit
configuration files.

Regards,
Avi




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