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From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 09:29:59 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] Oracle euthanizes Solaris 12, expunging it from roadmap
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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.