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Ubuntu/Debian have a very nasty habit of breaking the "principle of least astonishment". Things like why isn't my '/etc/cron.daily/blah.sh' script not running?
by Dobbs 15y ago
Ubuntu/Debian have a very nasty habit of breaking the "principle of least astonishment".
Things like why isn't my '/etc/cron.daily/blah.sh' script not running? I'll give you a hint its the period. Good luck realizing that if you come from any other Unix out there.
There is a need for progress but breaking everything just to try something new (pulseaudio, unity, and so on) is not progress just frustration.
- ernesth 15y agoDebian has a habit of having manpages. To realize the peculiarity of cron.daily, you just have to read them. Ubuntu on the other hand pushes changes before documenting them.
- moe 15y agoThat's a bad excuse for breaking standard functionality for no reason at all. Debian is my primary distro and I still consider it the least evil - but sadly only in contrast to what the others have on offer. Their mentality to patch and break everything at the slightest opportunity is a big problem. Don't get me started on the mess they make under /etc with all their ass-backwards wrappers for apache configs etc. Motd is not even the tip of the ice-berg here. Personally I've long stopped relying on anything but the base-install for this reason. Anything relevant to an application deploy is compiled from source or installed from a custom deb (postgres, nginx, et al). I have better things to do than figure out the latest brainfart of some package-maintainer about how to scatter a postgres-installation across the filesystem...