30 Apr
2005
30 Apr
'05
1:31 p.m.
And, FWIW, in one of the few GNUs Bulletins I actually have received, courtesy
of the FSF, RMS (I think) was advising that with the dropping price in
memory, GNU hackers could do without worrying about memory size, when it came
to replicating Unix utilities..
So perhaps that is a point to be taken into consideration? I know in some
respects FreeBSD - the only *BSD I've ever gotten around to installing -
comes across as smaller and faster than Linux. I hate to think of SysVRx -
everything I have read about that series of OSes said it was bloated, and the
SCO SysVR3 I learnt Unix on felt somewhat clumsier than Linux when I first
got it. But that's the result of Bash being nicer than sh to a 4DOS user.
Hope this is useful.
Wesley Parish
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 05:59, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
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Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish
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Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui?
You ask, what is the most important thing?
Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
From: Jerry
Peek <jpeek(a)jpeek.com>
To: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:50:21 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] Mention TUHS in Linux Magazine (US)?
Hi everyone. I'm a short-time UNIX user (I started in 1981 :)
and also a columnist for Linux Magazine (in the US: not the UK
flavour). I just came across TUHS while I was searching for a
V7 cp(1) manpage. (I found it, BTW, via Warren Toomey's page
http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/projects/Ancient_Unix/Documentation/PUPS/manp
ages.html.)
I'm writing a series of columns on "What's GNU in Old Utilities".
It describes new features of GNU utilities like cat(1) and
contrasts them to "how we used to do it." I'd like to mention
TUHS in the third column, which should be out in August. It
seems that TUHS is alive and well. If any of you have comments
or complaints about that idea, though, would you please let me
know before May 1 -- which is when the column is due? Thanks.
More power to you. Just keep a sharp eye out for things that
are touted as "new improved GNU features" that have been around
since the days of 6th Edition or 7th Edition Unix.
carl