From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 12 16:35:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8494B37B404 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:35:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com ([157.226.230.209]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA17CE; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:35:42 -0700 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:30:25 -0700 Received: from balderdash.acuson.com (dhcp-46-182.acuson.com [157.226.46.182]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id MJSBCA77; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:30:52 -0700 From: Johnson David To: Joe Sotham , Joshua Lokken Cc: Newbie list Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Organization: Acuson Subject: Re: slightly OT: Deprecated Linuxism Re: 4.6 ISO files Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:35:37 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <20020612205828.5465.qmail@adrastea.arcticbears.com> In-Reply-To: <20020612205828.5465.qmail@adrastea.arcticbears.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200206121635.37679.djohnson@acuson.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday 12 June 2002 01:58 pm, Joe Sotham wrote: > For my personal edification would someone please explain what a deprecated > linuxism is. Please copy me as I am not always subscribed... "Deprecated Linuxism" isn't in the Official FreeBSD Dictionary of Slang, so I'll have to go by memory :-) A "linuxism" is a way of doing things that only makes sense on Linux. Many people who have used Linux but never used another Unix or unix-like system believe that the Linux way of doing things is the right way. One project in particular (which I won't name) had on their front webpage that it wouldn't work under FreeBSD and that it was FreeBSD's fault for not using Linux style threads. One of the more common linuxisms is the organization of the proc filesystem. A "deprecated linuxism" is a linuxism that is outdated, archaic, wrong, or insecure, but Linux people don't know any better because their distros keep shipping with it. Remember, the average Linux person has no clue that anything outside of their distros even exist. One example of a deprecated linuxism is RPM. The original post about ISO images being a deprecated linuxism was a joke. It was like saying "what do you want an ISO image for, are you some Linux luser who hasn't got with the program yet?" Whereupon the Linux user goes off pondering whether or not he's a neanderthal for even asking the question. Of course, ISO images are not deprecated, are not linuxisms, and most certainly not deprecated linuxisms. Of course I don't use them, I've found something much better. It's called supping the source and building 4.6-RELEASE from scratch... --- David p.s. "Official FreeBSD Dictionary of Slang" does not exist. This is a joke. Don't take it seriously... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message