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> Coherency What does this refer to in this context?
by pastrami_panda 5y ago
> Coherency
What does this refer to in this context?
- tbrock 5y agoThings are where you’d expect, patterns and conventions cary on throughout the system, etc… Vs the disjoint feeling linux has.
- JoshTriplett 5y agoPart of the job of a Linux distribution is to provide policy, conventions, and similar consistency. If you install everything from sources directly, or directly from upstream vendors, you may get inconsistencies, but if you install everything from your Linux distribution, you should get reasonable consistency, just as if you install everything from your BSD distribution.
- agumonkey 5y agoeven in a distro, you'll get various syntax variations for instance
- JoshTriplett 5y agoSyntax of what?
- agumonkey 5y agocli programs, they all have different ways to handle arguments, options, help ps: another instance, albeit not a BSD strength either, would be data format, every output is different, I, like a few people too wanted some json as pivot representation to cut the thousands of papercuts, that kind of uniformity is what I expect from "system"
- evh 5y agoLots (just some? most? I haven't really used it much) of FreeBSD system utilities are using libxo for output, so you can use e.g. ps --libxo json and get json output, or xml/html
- agumonkey 5y agoI didn't know bsd already adopted it, only heard a few passing mentions. That's great, though, and note that I mostly meant that about linux.
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- zokula 5y agoI already have that with Linux.