Comment by arccy
1 year ago
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.
1 year ago
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.
It's the de facto standard. No one knows how to use other flavors of tools like date, find, grep, sed etc.
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.
For all the good that does you running modern software. "UNIX support" in a post k8s age is considered optional.
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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."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto_standard
GNU utilities won. That's just reality.