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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: To SMIT or not to SMIT (Was: Re: Installed a buggy kernel ext...)
Message-ID: <4871@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 13 Nov 90 23:57:09 GMT
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Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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This is a silly discussion.  Let me clarify for Mr. Bjorn of Oracle
that I am not particularly anti-SMIT, anti-logical volumes, or anti-
kernel extensions, although I tend to agree with the guy from Penn that
SMIT is a better idea than its present realization.  In fact, I didn't
mention any of these new features as objects of criticism.  What IS
annoying was the apparent need of IBM to redo common ways of doing old
things (not new things) so that the 17 years of system management
skills are essentially useless.  God forbid you should be doing
anything half-way complicated without all the manuals close by, and the
one you need (you know, the one which maps all the damn LED error
codes when the system crashes or doesn't reboot) is never around.  Feh.

-- 
Steve Dyer
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