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Linux may be the de facto standard, but BSD cares about the de jure standard. It's a matter of perspective. Also many of these are actually GNU idiosyncrasies,
by jrumbut 8y ago
Linux may be the de facto standard, but BSD cares about the de jure standard. It's a matter of perspective.
Also many of these are actually GNU idiosyncrasies, and from it's name GNU suggests that there is a standard, and they are going to be different.
- greglindahl 8y agoFun to think it's come full circle; BSD used to be the rule-breakers.
- hyperman1 8y agoIsn't that the history of computing? the word UNIX points at the disdain its makers had for Multics. They broke every rule IBM had. PCs were these toys for people who had no acces to real computers, until they were the standard. Microsoft provided toy OSes until they wiped out almost anybody else. Java, MySql and subversion are other examples. I've read somewhere that every succesfull product has a phase where the world laughs at it. If that hadn't happened, it would have been smothered in the cradle by the behemots of its time. Being laughed at gave it time to grow.
- acct1771 8y agoThey break the rule these days by actually giving a shit about security instead of doing what many of us are guilty of doing: dumbing it down for the lowest common denominator user to make money. Has created some incredible UI paradigms and elements, but...