From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Subject: [TUHS] Oracle euthanizes Solaris 12, expunging it from roadmap
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 09:29:59 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1701200928070.44785@frieza.hoshinet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58821d5d.xUgQiZSe3DhW87+W%schily@schily.net>
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On Fri, 20 Jan 2017, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think his assertion is that he personally had originally learned the
>> command as "mkdir --parents" [which was and is GNU-only], and had to
>> change to spelling it "-p" when going to non-linux systems, along with
>> some unspecified behavior differences.
>
> This is why I call Linux a system that tries to establich a vendor lock in.
>
> Man pages could have been written in a way that makes it obvious that --parents
> is non-portable, but they rather encourage people to learn gnu long options.
>
> Jörg
>
>
I blame GNU rather than the Linux people. GNU are just as much masters of
"embrace, extend, exterminate" as Microsoft.
I've thought of trying to build a "GNUless" Linux distribution with a
purer Unix feel, but I get hung trying to step myself through the process.
-uso.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-20 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-19 7:53 Kay Parker
2017-01-19 8:49 ` Wesley Parish
2017-01-19 14:40 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-01-19 16:39 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-01-19 17:02 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-01-20 2:00 ` Nick Downing
2017-01-20 11:24 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-20 13:26 ` Random832
2017-01-20 14:23 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-20 14:29 ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2017-01-20 15:20 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-01-20 15:45 ` Andy Kosela
2017-01-20 16:30 ` tfb
2017-01-20 19:38 ` Nemo
2017-01-21 0:25 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-01-21 1:58 ` Rico Pajarola
2017-01-21 17:32 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-01-24 3:51 ` Rico Pajarola
2017-01-21 15:43 ` Nemo
2017-01-20 20:30 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-20 22:30 ` Kay Parker
2017-01-20 23:50 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-21 0:09 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-01-21 1:03 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-01-20 11:54 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-01-19 18:17 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-20 14:58 Rudi Blom
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