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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Yet Another New systemd Feature
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 22:51:38 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 9 May 2024 11:29:13 +0200, D wrote:

> On Wed, 8 May 2024, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 8 May 2024 11:53:57 +0200, D wrote:
>>
>>> A more senior consultant at that time, told me he always installed
>>> some private guys gnu utils on every AIX machine he administered.
>>
>> Every seasoned Unix sysadmin had the tradition of doing that.
>>
>>> I remember thinking that it did feel a bit insecure ...
>>
>> Why? Unix folks preferred the GNU tools because they tended to be of
>> higher quality than the vendor-proprietary stuff.
>>
> Because I thought that the private guy who hosted them ...

You could have got them from the FSF itself, and its list of reputable 
mirrors. That was a thing in those days.

Like I said, just about every Unix sysadmin preferred the GNU tools, 
because they were seen as being of higher quality than the vendor-
proprietary stuff.