Re: [TCLUG:14215] using OpenSSH

[Christopher Palmer <reid@pconline.com>]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Dan Debertin wrote:

> 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?

OpenSSH is the descendent of a program that worked on many different types
of Unix. So compatibility was *taken out*.

> 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.

I agree. But BSD people are often heard whining about how Linux developers
don't make their software generic enough to run on different Unices, hence
the sarcasm.


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