[Info-vax] DECUServe is a Hobbyist Chapter

[Scott Dorsey]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>In article <rdqd6l$f66$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
>Dorsey) writes: 
>
>> Yes, splitting decnet off was a big advance.  But in a perfect world,
>> every part of the system would be a layered product and they would all
>> just layer on top of one another.  It took the Unix world many decades
>> before Solaris was built this way, but now it's become quite ordinary
>> there.  The ability to build a system that has just the pieces that you
>> need is a big deal in the modern world where people use the same OS for
>> radically different applications. 
>
>Not that long ago, I remember people here complaining that TCPIP was not 
>an integral part of VMS, even that a Webserver wasn't an integral part, 
>that all of that stuff should be installed, set up, and configured by 
>default.  :-|

That's the beauty of package management.  People who want that, they get
what they want.  People who don't want that, they get what they want too.
You can have one distribution that installs several very differently
configured systems, from minimalist to everything-and-the-kitchen-sink,
with a simple setup menu.
--scott
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