Re: [TCLUG:14215] using OpenSSH

[Dan Debertin <danield@bitstream.net>]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Christopher Palmer wrote:

> 
> I think FreeBSD is lucky. Raster built Enlightenment for Red Hat Linux.
> The fact that others want it is incidental. It ports easily to the other
> Linux distributions. He was nice enough to port it to FreeBSD.

Come on. This is UNIX -- annoying discrepancies between different Unices
are de rigeur. Sometimes the people who write the software have the time
to port it to other architectures, sometimes they don't; but seriously
folks, how many different kinds of UNIX can you name? Would we be having
this discussion if the writers weren't "nice enough" to port it to HP/UX
or Ultrix?

If it doesn't work on your favorite UNIX, you can a) find some way to make
it work if it's really that important to you, and then (hopefully) make
that work available to others, or b) give up on it and find another
solution that does work. True, this reality is not terribly wonderful, but
given how Linux, like all other Unices, is fragmenting like crazy, that
reality is showing no signs of changing.

~Dan D.
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