Re: [TCLUG:14215] using OpenSSH

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 12:28:14PM -0600, Thomas.Veldhouse (Exchange) wrote:
> Where did you get your source from?  It worked fine for me using Slackware
> (no PAM).
> 
> ftp://thermo.stat.ncsu.edu/pub/openssh/files/openssh-1.2.2.tar.gz
> 
> Read ftp://thermo.stat.ncsu.edu/pub/openssh/files/INSTALL
> 
> I think that Linux is lucky.  OpenBSD built OpenSSH for OpenBSD.  The
> fact that others want it is incidental.  It ports easily to the other
> *BSD.  They were nice enough to port it to Linux.

You've just annoyed me to no end...

*flame on*

	*shrug* I think this is a stupid argument.  The ssh source code
it derives from was originally capable of being compiled on almost any
system, and they modified it heavily to make it only compile on BSD
systems.

	I, personally, don't go out of my way to make programs I write
only work under Linux.  In fact, I lean a bit the other way.  I consider
this common courtesy, and expect the same from any group of Open Source
coders.  I think that doing this indicates a very bigoted attitude on
their part, and it annoys me.

	Frankly, I've noticed a 'class boundry' between BSD and Linux.
The BSD people think of Linux as this low-class upstart, and consider
themselves to have the good, pure, well-written OS.  Perhaps it's
somewhat true, but as long as I see this, I won't use BSD.  That kind of
attitude will eventually get them relegated to the dust bins of
history.

*flame off*

*sigh*,
-- 
Its name is Public Opinion.  It is held in reverence. It settles everything.
Some think it is the voice of God.  Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet
broke a chain or freed a human soul.     ---Mark Twain
-- Eric Hopper (hopper@omnifarious.mn.org  http://omnifarious.mn.org/~hopper) --

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