Hi Girish
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Girish Venkatachalam
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Bash is frowned upon by the UNIX community. It is full of bugs,
> bloated and acts crazy.
>
Bash might have a few issues, but in my opinion, a few things
are easier in bash :)
> ksh is the preferred shell. The binutils in UNIX is different from
> that of Linux. You don't have so
> many switches, so many colors.
>
Well, the binutils is mostly from GNU, and on Solaris(Open
Indiana, to be correct), we can use all of those binutils. It has the
gmake, gawk etc. I am not sure about *BSD, but I guess that too would
have the GNU collection in its ports. The biggest difference is the
switches. For eg.
cp a/ /data/a -r
will work in a GNU system. The '-r' switch is at the end. But by
default, the switches have to be right after the command in a proper
UNIX system. I don't know if there is an easy way to make the commands
parse the switches irrespective of their position in the command.
> It is overall much more mature and serious.
>
> The file systems; that is where the major difference lies.
>
I am not sure I understood this. Can you please tell what is the
difference in the file systems ? UNIX supports the UFS, ZFS etc.
> Linux has 100 ways to do each thing. Everyone wants a gratification of
> their ego.
>
It is not about ego. It is about having options. The
classical example - Emacs and Vi. I might like emacs and someone else
will like vi. We can choose the editor that best suits our needs.
>
> I can go on and on but the reality is that 99.9999999999999% of LUG is
> still stuck in the Linux mud.
>
That's because this is a LUG, a Linux User Group. So, people
tend to use GNU/Linux :). But on a serious note, for a desktop user,
who primary use of a computer is to check mails, create some
documents, spreadsheets and presentations, listen to music and watch
movies, UNIX(say, FreeBSD) is not very suitable. But on a server, yes,
it makes more sense to use UNIX.
> And my effort to raise people from that is not helping, has not
> helped, and I don't think really
> serious hackers hang around in LUG at all....
>
Yes, they tend to hang around in IRCs of their choice, where
they most probably get their answers much faster, and with lesser
noise :) LUGs are mostly for users with user land questions. Thanks
--
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Balachandran Sivakumar
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