What's this landscape stuff about?

[Rashkae]

Siggy Brentrup wrote:
>
> 
> As for motd: In almost 30 years of administering unixoid OSes (with a
> long interruption due to illness since 2004) I always used /etc/motd
> as a simple plain text file that's a convinient means for the sysadmin
> to communicate important stuff to users.  I'm not happy with Debian's
> decision to automatically create part of it because it takes away
> screen space forcing me to use motd.tail instead of motd if I don't
> want to loose my information.  Things change, but they can also change
> compatibly e.g. by modifying login to display a newly introduced
> prefix to motd instead of breaking existing scripts.
> 
> Again Canonical tops this Debian misfeature by displaying spam if you
> install an innocent looking Ubuntu package.
> 

Sounds like you'll be much happier with the Debian installed then.  How
I'll miss these explosions of rage over a package that you installed
yourself and just as easily removed when you weren't happy with what it
did or was for.