Re: [MLUG] BSD and GNU

["Nimrod Levy" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

My point was that the GNU grep was distributed as part of the base
system.  In FreeBSD world, /bin and /usr/bin are the base distribution
and all "extras" are installed in /usr/local/.

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Nimrod

On Dec 23, 2007 12:37 AM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Nimrod Levy wrote:
>
> > $ uname -sr
> > FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE
> > $ which grep
> > /usr/bin/grep
> > $ grep --version
> > grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1-FreeBSD
>
> Interesting.  So once you're using all GNU on top of the FreeBSD kernel,
> does Linux have any advantage over that?
>
> I would have to guess that Linux is still easier to deal with when you
> want to add a new program because most things these days are going to be
> readily available for Linux in some kind of package.  But that's just a
> guess.  What's your experience?
>
>
> Mike
>
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