Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:55:24 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: James Phillips <anti_spam256@yahoo.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Alessandro Baggi <alessandro.baggi@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Decision Message-ID: <AANLkTikFM63cZ=E0BjDFbYg3d9=BOcwqfdnq5OnbgFPS@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <591451.38501.qm@web120705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <20110115003535.75A7010656BF@hub.freebsd.org> <591451.38501.qm@web120705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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On 15 January 2011 01:56, James Phillips <anti_spam256@yahoo.ca> wrote: <snip> > One thing to keep in mind is that BSD speaks a different POSIX "dialect" = than most Linux distros (though that is likely true between Linux distros a= s well). This means things like NFS/NIS won't work without tweaking. One th= ing I also ran into is that md5sum (Debian) ~=3D md5 (BSD). I suppose you a= re supposed to use SHA2 these days anyway :P > <rant> I'd like to jump in and say that the 'dialect' that the GNU utilities use often have a very strange interpretation of POSIX. Many porters (for example) have to spend huge amounts of time repairing GNUisms in install scripts; for example when I was helping to port Scilab (Bashisms in '['), and some work I've done on Busybox has meant I've had to work around GNUisms in sed and find. On the risk of starting a flame war, I believe that the GNU folks are guilty of exactly the same embracing and extension tactics (however unwittingly) as everyone's favourite software corp. </rant> Chris
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