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From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
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Subject: Re: This FOSS Thang :-)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:26:43 -0400
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On 3/26/24 10:34 AM, DFS wrote:
> On 3/12/2024 4:20 PM, Lamer Larry wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:43:52 -0400, -hh wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> What we've seen with some Linux fanboy braggarts ...
>>>
>>
>> Well, we GNU/Linux "fanboy braggarts" have a fuck of a lot
>> to brag about.  We are advocating the greatest OS in the
>> history of technical man, fer chrissake.
> 
> 
> That would be Unix.

Yup.


> The Linux kernel seems to be a good piece of work, but GuhNoo itself is 
> just a cadge of the real thing.
> 
> Can you imagine spending years of your life cloning others work, then 
> putting your own name on it as if it's something you originated?  Then 
> walking around with your fat belly sticking out and calling yourself 
> "Doctor"?  What a phony.
> 
> 
> The GuhNoo "core utilities"
> 
> arch        base64      basename    cat
> chcon       chgrp       chmod       chown
> chroot      cksum       comm        cp
> csplit      cut         date        dd
> df          dir         dircolors    dirname
> du          echo        env         expand
> expr        factor      false       fmt
> fold        groups      head        hostid
> hostname    id          install     join
> kill        link        ln          logname
> ls          md5sum      mkdir       mkfifo
> mknod       mktemp      mv          nice
> nl          nohup       nproc       numfmt
> od          paste       pathchk     pinky
> pr          printenv    printf      ptx
> pwd         readlink    realpath    rm
> rmdir       runcon      seq         shred
> shuf        sleep       sort        split
> stat        stdbuf      stty        sum
> tac         tail        tee         test
> timeout     touch       tr          true
> truncate    tsort       tty         uname
> unexpand    uniq        unlink      uptime
> users       vdir        wc          who
> whoami      yes
> 
> 
> Which *weren't* cadged from Unix?
> 

Seems that they must have renamed biff, to make it less obvious. /s


-hh