On 10.07.18 09:32, Lars Noodén wrote: > > Why, oh why replace well-known, portable commands with Linux-only > > commands that are no better? > > Looking at the comparison table in that link, not only are the new > utilities and order of magnitude more complex they also fail to deliver > many of the functions available in the normal utilities.
Scrolling through the document, I found it an information-free artifact, devoid of any reason to favour the new over the standard. > Newer is not better. Different is not better. Only better is better. > ... and most of these new utilities don't cut the mustard from what I've > experienced with them. Ego drives young men to reinvent the wheel, then declaim "mine is grand, and I deprecate (piss on) the old." (E.g. the only pretext for reimplementing the simulator for AVR microcontrollers was that the new bloke needed a vehicle to massage his C++ ego, so the eminently serviceable C version had to go.) It is not possible to guide them to direct their energies to maintaining the community's existing tools, because it is all about the new egos, not supporting standard tools. No problem. I continue to use ifconfig and netstat, though I have admittedly moved from nslookup to dig. > I haven't decided about ss yet however. Tried it yesterday, after learning that it exists, but am underwhelmed, and cannot see any need to change. Erik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
