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Re:Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael Larabel... by danssig on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @09:40AM (#3889056)
Yes, I'm still hoping some day someone will make a Linux Distro that uses OpenLDAP for configuration as much as possible instead of flat files scattered all over the system, all with different syntax.
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Re:Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael Larabel... by jebblue on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @04:00PM (#3890761)
LDAP is a PITA. Flat files usually have three things to remember:

# is a comment key value

That's the format of most config files I see.

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Re:Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael Larabel... by danssig on Thursday April 26, 2012 @05:32AM (#3893087)
Over the last few weeks I've been setting up a personal linux server. Every single process I add has a different configuration. Systems like Postfix have nice things like "this combination of variable settings produces this behavior, but if you change one yes to a no you get something totally different".
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