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0 pointsarccy9mo ago0 comments

this talk of GNU being "standard" is toxic, as if anything that doesn't use it is weird or off spec.

the GNU userland might be common for user facing systems, but it's nowhere close to standard.

0 pointsarccy9mo ago0 comments

this talk of GNU being "standard" is toxic, as if anything that doesn't use it is weird or off spec.

the GNU userland might be common for user facing systems, but it's nowhere close to standard.

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oguz-ismail9mo ago· 4 in thread

It's the de facto standard. No one knows how to use other flavors of tools like date, find, grep, sed etc.

pjmlp9mo ago

Some of us do, but we are old enough to know that Linux is not a synonym for UNIX, and to have installed it from floppies.

bigyabai9mo ago

For all the good that does you running modern software. "UNIX support" in a post k8s age is considered optional.

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stonogo9mo ago

There's no such thing as a "de facto standard." The whole point of a standard is to be the jure that the thing is de. The word you're looking for is "common."

oguz-ismail9mo ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto_standard

quotemstr9mo ago

GNU utilities won. That's just reality.

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