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		nailer on July 9, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Varnish guy's hatred for autoconf > e.g. "perl" always exists It probably does, but most infrastructure software in both RHEL/Fedora and Ubuntu has been created in Python for nearly a decade now.

astine on July 9, 2010 [–]

Gentoo as well, but this is not the case for Solaris to name at least one example.

nailer on July 9, 2010 | [–]

Or AIX or HPUX. Solaris isn't quite so unpopular yet, but there's more vintage support Solaris 8 out there than there is 10, and there's almost no OpenSolaris to speak of.

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