On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> In addition: you are right, There are millions of UNIX systems without
>> 'less' installed.
>
>How many linux installation are out there? And how many UNIX installations?
>I *SUSPECT* linux > Unix, so your comment isn't right. Do you have numbers
>to prove me wrong?
Personally, the number of each type of system out there doesn't
matter much in terms of portability. Something is either
portable or it isn't. When trying to be portable, one should
choose programs ran from shellscripts with care so that they run
on as many OS's out there as possible.
Depends on if one's goal is to write software that runs on the
most computers out there, or the most operating systems out
there. The former is a subset of the latter.
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