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From: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: To SMIT or not to SMIT (Was: Re: Installed a buggy kernel ext...)
Summary: "Stepping in others footsteps doesn't bring you ahead"
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Date: 13 Nov 90 10:36:35 GMT
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Article <32547@netnews.upenn.edu> by reilly@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (G. Brendan Reilly) says:
|This is in response to the neophyte who wants IBM to port
|SMIT to other systems:
I guess that somebody is me, since I've said that a few times in this
newsgroup.  I wouldn't actually concider myself a neophyte, on the contrary;
I've been in Unix for 10 years, AIX for 3, and AIX 3.1 since January.  And
I still think that SMIT is a really good tool for system administration, and
that making kernel extensions the way it is done in AIX 3.1 is much better
than the 'oldfashioned' link/reboot.

Mr. Reilly continued complaining about problems with SMIT.  Well, I never
said that IBM's software was bugfree, I have only commented that the _ideas_
in the software are good.  And the best way to improve the quality of the 
IBM products is probably not to flame them here, but to struggle your way
politely through their bureaucracy, (which I know can be hard, but it is
doable).

|
|I stand with Steve - IBM made a major mistake redefining all
|of the system management tools,
This could be turning into a war, but I think IBM made major step ahead.
|and they are full of bugs.
'Full' is a strong word, I would say they are not bugfree.
|The last thing any system needs is buggy system managment tools.
The first thing any system needs is easy-to-use system managment tools.

Thanks, IBM, for doing what my signature suggests.
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Bjorn Engsig,         E-mail: bengsig@oracle.com, bengsig@oracle.nl
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            "Stepping in others footsteps, doesn't bring you ahead"