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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:57398 comp.unix.bsd:13575 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux Message-ID: <CMEJvJ.3rD@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <1994Mar8.141900.2906@wubios.wustl.edu> <1994Mar9.094748.4022@swan.pyr> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 14:50:07 GMT Lines: 21 In article <1994Mar9.094748.4022@swan.pyr> iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes: >Most of the core utilities are the same - being the GNU utilities. Generally >speaking it looks like this > > BSD Linux >Shells bash,tcsh,ksh bash,tcsh,ksh >X windows Xfree86 Xfree86 >Utilities GNU GNU >Compiler GCC GCC This is somewhat misleading. In NetBSD 0.9, only a few of the standard utilities apart from the compiler are GNU versions, though they are some of the most important ones: diff rcs diff3 grep sdiff bc groff lex sort cpio gawk gzip pr tar -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk "Your monkey has got it right, sir." - HHGTTG