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Mike Miller 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?
BSD sometimes uses GNU tools (like grep), and sometimes its own tools
(like sed). Some tools are significantly different (like make).
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?
From the packages point of view, FreeBSD does extremely well, and is
perhaps one of its greatest strengths. It has the "ports" system. And
if a port for software you like doesn't exist, you or someone else can
create a port for it, and it will quickly be added to the base.
Stephen
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