From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Aug 5 00:14:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA01154 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 00:14:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01145 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 00:14:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id JAA03769 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:14:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:14:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Extended / Replaced Utilities Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm a UNIX user and system administrator for a couple of years now. Some years ago I tried Linux and FreeBSD and decided for the latter one. One reason was that FreeBSD behaves much more than a traditional UNIX system than Linux. I don't need a colorized ls command, I don't need a corrupted terminal after a remote login from a DEC or SUN workstation to a Linux box (ok - recent versions behave less worse) and so on. Now I observe that for example 2.2.6-RELEASE comes with a drastically (to my mind) changed ftp client. I read in the release notes the 2.2.7-RELEASE has an ls command with many new options. Excuse me - but now I seem to be irritated. Where does FreeBSD go? Will it leave the traditional BSD line which seems to be strong argument for using FreeBSD? I'm interested in other people's opinion here. May be advocacy is not the best newsgroup to discuss it but there seems to be some relationship. Konrad Heuer // Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH // Goettingen (GWDG), Am Fassberg, D-37077 Goettingen, Germany // // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message