UNIX admin wrote:
And the GNU tools are mostly inferior products in terms of performance: for example, GNU AWK is slower than System V AWK (this has been chewed into oblivion on the Usenet); or GCC generates slower code than any vendor's compilers (Sun Studio will trod GCC into the ground in hands of a person who knows what they are doing); or the
actually, this is two-sided coin. Sun Studio supports less architectures and less languages than gcc.
GNU tar utility generating broken / incompatible tar archives (and implementing a compressor, something a Tape ARchiver is NOT supposed
You'd probably be surprised, but it just spawns gzip/bzip and doesn't compress anything by itself. The only difference between spawning it manually+piping and spawning it automatically via -j/-z is ease of use.
However I believe there are people enjoying manual process spawning.
to do!), or GNU make breaking compatibility with regular System V make (GNU Makefiles cannot be processed by System V make as it stands right now). And let's not forget bash: a broken "we know better" replacement for Korn and Bourne shells.
Stating bash is replacement for ksh and sh you revealed quite strange perception of reality. bash is just a shell. There are lots of shells around, and not all of them are compatible, even ones trying to be. For example, zsh is not ksh-compatible. Also, there are csh and tcsh -- are they "we know better" replacements for ksh too?
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