Re: [MLUG] BSD and GNU

["Nimrod Levy" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

$ uname -sr
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE
$ which grep
/usr/bin/grep
$ grep --version
grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1-FreeBSD



On Dec 22, 2007 4:23 PM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> I'm thinking of the GNU "Coreutils" that used to be distributed separately
> with shellutils, fileutils, etc.  This would include programs like ls, cp,
> mv, rm, cat, head, tail, grep, sed, awk, cut, paste and many more.
>
> My understanding is that BSD has it's own versions of all of those
> utilities.  I know that it is always possible to replace such utilities on
> any UNIX system with the GNU versions (personally, I think it is usually a
> good idea to do so -- you can always keep these files in different places
> and use the path to decide which is usually used).
>
> Anyway, I guess you (Bryan) are saying that the user is now allowed to
> choose at the time of installation whether to use the GNU utilities or the
> BSD utilities.  Is that correct?  I had not heard that, but I like the
> idea.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Bryan Venable wrote:
>
> > It depends on how you look at it.  GPL code can't be considered a "core"
> > or "required" part of a pure BSD distribution, by definition, because
> > then you would have to place the GPL conditions on redistribution of
> > that code.  So e.g. if someone uses just the OpenBSD system itself
> > without GCC or any other GPL'ed components, then it's just a BSD
> > licensed system and they're free to use and redistribute it under those
> > terms.  But if you add the standard compiler package that the OpenBSD
> > project distributes, that includes GCC and related GPL'ed components.
> > The same goes for the other well-known BSD systems, AFAIK:  they
> > distribute GPL'ed software to go along with the core OS, and a lot of
> > people install it, but it's officially "optional" so the core system
> > remains pure BSD.
> >
> > On 12/21/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Jack Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>> I don't know how different it would be to use a BSD live CD as a
> >>> recovery CD as the BSDs do have some differences with Linux but they
> >>> still largely use the same GNU program set.
> >>
> >> I'm pretty sure that BSD doesn't use GNU programs.  Maybe you meant
> >> that the programs are like the GNU programs even though they are not
> >> compiled from the same code.  Is that it?  All UNIX/Linux systems are
> >> similar that way, and I think POSIX supplies another standard that
> >> makes them alike (if they try to adhere to POSIX).
> >>
> >> Mike
>
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