Markus Kuhn wrote:
> At this point, the use of FreeBSD becomes really counterproductive.
> Portable programming becomes now routinely hindered by the argument that
> this and that nice X/Open, C99, etc. feature is available on any major
> Unix except for FreeBSD.
This is not a place to discuss this, thus I'll keep my answer short. Yes,
FreeBSD doesn't have good locale support. However, in many other aspects it
is compatible with most other Unixes. Linux is better in some aspects,
FreeBSD in others. Hopefully the good ideas will be exchanged.
FreeBSD tends to give more attention to stability and backwards compatibilty,
while Linux tends to include more fancy features. I happen to like a stable
environment to work in, with a few bleeding edge things (like using KDE).
For Linux the Debian distribution would be my choice.
> > You are probably going to suggest I install Linux instead...
>
> The advantage of Linux is that it has managed to become a major standard
> platform, second only to M$-Windows. I expect it seriously to overtake
> the Microsoft platforms within the next 10 years, simply due to its
> stability.
[I will probably be killed for saying this in a Linux list...]
FreeBSD is at least twice as stable then Linux. Of course, Linux is fancier.
That's the same way how MS-Windows has taken its place in the market. Not by
(boring) stability but by (flashy) features. I'm disappointed to see that
Linux distributors are going the same route, chosing the latest update of
programs above a stable version (e.g., the latest Red Hat distribution
contains an ALPHA version of Vim).
> > I still haven't heard a reason why setlocale() needs to be case-sensitive.
>
> It isn't in glibc.
Ah, after all that discussion you are telling me that it already works like I
desired?
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