Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:37:16 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Marty Leisner <leisner@rochester.rr.com> Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gnu system program vs BSD. Opinions ? Message-ID: <20001221233716.G96105@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <200012220548.AAA08642@rochester.rr.com>; from leisner@rochester.rr.com on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:48:18AM -0500 References: <cjclark@reflexnet.net> <200012220548.AAA08642@rochester.rr.com>
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On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:48:18AM -0500, Marty Leisner wrote: > > Actually, this is a good topic. > > I've used Unix for nearly 20 years and the GNU tools for over > a decade. > > I'm comfortable with bash/fileutils/shellutils/gmake/gawk The base FreeBSD awk is gawk, $ awk --version GNU Awk 3.0.4 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-1999 Free Software Foundation. The base FreeBSD tar is GNU tar, $ tar --version GNU tar version 1.11.2 The base FreeBSD cc is gcc... grep, groff, gzip, patch, perl, rcs, sort, cvs, and on and on. bash can be added as apackage or port painlessly. make is thankfully not gmake. It can be added as a package or port. > When I install a freebsd system, I painfully look around for > the gnu tools.. > > I probably would be a good idea to a have a "gnu" environment > you can specify at account creation time, to default to the > gnu tools (instead of the bsd ones). Feel free to make a GNU-BSD hybrid if you want, but it would be a whole new project. Anyway, if you want the GNU tools, why not use one of the GNU-Linuxes? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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