I think it would be much more useful if it were a relevant, helpful, needed project to release under the GPL for Unix in general, not Linux in specific. Of course, if it's a sysadmin tool, it will have to be tied to a specific variant of Unix, but maybe something else could be found that is not so system-dependent.

I use Solaris at school, and LinuxPPC at home. And personally, I'm a little frustrated by how much i386-linux-specific software is out there. I know: it's open source, so go port it yourself if you want it. But it seems to me that a lot of Linux programmers have a very platform-centric vision of the world. This last comment has nothing to do with Macphisto's message (I'm not implying that you have a platform-centric vision of the world), it's just a comment that pops up in my head every once in a while.

--ZZamboni

In reply to RE: Contributions to Linux via PerlMonks by ZZamboni
in thread Contributions to Linux via PerlMonks by Macphisto

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