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posted by marcov, 30.08.2008, 14:37

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> > Just to avoid
> > the horrible maintenance nightmare, and Unix centric thinking that haunts
> > Free Software on non Unix targets. Unfortunately, there is no substitute
> > for GDB.
>
> I don't see why Unix centric is worse than Windows centric,

I never said I was Windows centric. OTOH I don't want to dismiss this entirely, so here are my main gripes:

Our focus is more on the ability to maintain an external package independantly. This is hard nearly everything except Windows. Even the Vista transition is a picknick compared with an OS/X major version or packaging one release for the heaps of fragmentated little Linux distro's.
All of which with their own packagemanagers, archive formats, guidelines and policies; Linux users always describe themselves as technofreaks, but IMHO they are rather bureaucrats that even put the former communist bureaucracy to shame.

Aside from that I think that Unix drives its originally sound "little independant tools" policy too far. For larger packages it becomes a framework that is slow, fragile, and wrought with complex dependancies.

> especially considering that the Linux user base is growing at the expense of Windows.
Peanuts. OS X users are a relatively larger Unix usergroup than Linux :-)
But more importantly, Windows is still number one, despite Linux being in the "quick grower" spot for over ten years now.

Oh, and I'm an old BSDer originally btw, dabbling with Unix at home from before Linux existed, so please don't call be Windows sensitive just because I dare to criticise things that are IMHO wrong in Unix land.

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