From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 10:55:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4D9106564A for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:55:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59E18FC08 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:55:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm16 with SMTP id 16so3951465fxm.13 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 02:55:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=1x0pus2IVdVJZkNP4ih2emNWDTFPfz8CaSqqOueIcCg=; b=nNQffLVGnt76HLzHsQFC/xaR2swXNSCt8gGQRav4UCP+biM4tEeCuTizgkEn2VbXml P24G8g+iuGKwO4IzqxgkI3WT6tnCozYM05SkXCGuRAQF1C6R+dzqgGnI9WOh57bLdD1r 3VF/RkXcaBCDKDRGRuTiQsfDwuNz5D9/bfCG4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CrvGIbS/FUwiHEXziok4l+3aPPAjZm5lN2ei3RP+R87HnYdgCL/XTI7Nex9bDK9YkQ PxaaGt5iFMcfZh2l0icJFIgAvWoj9bWFkBVikfx2Zek4jLgZod4EzdyZHfWVXStomsNh 8VOY6j/Tosw+I+itqstAuOvdO+VjpPKps3sUA= Received: by 10.204.65.135 with SMTP id j7mr1151152bki.85.1295088954643; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 02:55:54 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.52.19 with HTTP; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 02:55:24 -0800 (PST) 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> From: Chris Rees Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:55:24 +0000 Message-ID: To: James Phillips Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Alessandro Baggi Subject: Re: FreeBSD Decision X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:55:56 -0000 On 15 January 2011 01:56, James Phillips wrote: > 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 > 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. Chris