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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:51:05 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Brian Stark" <brian.stark@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: curiousity: why were thinking about that tool?
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:46:42 -0800 "Brian Stark"
<brian.stark@onstor.com> wrote:

> I finally remembered -- the tool I was thinking about was Slind.  I
> thought that this was the packaging tool, but I guess it's the tool
> that would take away the need for using a filer to do the config and
> installation of the Linux FS.  Right?

Yes.  It was something Larry looked into.  I talked with him about it
in more detail last night.  It didn't work, but even if it had, I have
my doubts that it would have done what he was hoping it would do.

> I was curious to know about the distribution and packaging tools just
> so that I can appear semi-intelligent when asked these questions.  :-)

There always does seem to be questions about that stuff floating around
at high levels, and I can never fully figure out why except that some
executives actually think they know things.  My boss at CCPU said to me
one day 'I think maybe it would be better if we used Redhat.'  I said
'Better you leave the thinking to me.'  Primarily because we weren't
using anything in our product at CCPU: we weren't doing a distro at all
-- we were making a set of software packages -- for Redhat.  Which I'd
explained to him several times in the past.

But yeah, I'm definitely the guy to make someone semi-intelligent!

Cheers,

a


>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andy Sharp 
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 6:44 PM
> > To: Brian Stark
> > Subject: curiousity: why were thinking about that tool?
> > 
> > Dying of curiousity to know why you were trying to remember 
> > the name of that tool that we decided not to use ~:^)
> > 
