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"Bob Young" <BYoung@××××××××××.com> posted |
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FAEEIJPAOFEMBBLKPMJECEMEHKAA.BYoung@××××××××××.com, excerpted below, on |
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Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:01:19 -0700: |
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> When was the last time that you personally submitted a *patch* for some |
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> open source app/utility/driver? |
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Matter of fact, altho I don't claim to do C or C++, I do do a bit of |
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scripting, and have submitted several ebuild and initscripts patches this |
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year. =8^) |
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Of course, I'm not "most people" nor would I /want/ to be, but certainly, |
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understanding scripting isn't /too/ hard, and most Gentoo users in any |
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case should be able to do it and thus post patches at that level with |
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little difficulty. Again tho, "most Gentoo users" do tend to still be a |
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cut above "most Linux users", technical literacy wise. Still, bash |
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scripting is something anyone that can decently manage his own system |
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should be able to do if they choose to, and the fact that nearly all Linux |
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systems use shell scripting for their init sequence demonstrably leaves |
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them freer, more open to users, than the comparatively opaque boot process |
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of many closed source systems out there. (I know, this is one thing I |
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immediately appreciated about Linux when switching from MS, and taking |
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apart and reassembling the Mandrake initscripts is how I actually learned |
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my bash scripting.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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