FreeBSD Popularity

[Brett Glass]

At 06:06 PM 2/28/2010, Charlie Kester wrote:

>If you don't understand that there's an aesthetic aspect to Unix, you'll
>miss what a lot of people are complaining about with GNUish stuff.

There's that, too. So many longwinded command line options that 
they had to start using double dashes. And Linux also tends to 
follow System V conventions, some of which were changed from the 
BSD ones by AT&T just to make things annoyingly different.

Then again, there never really was a "UNIX style manual." There 
probably should have been, so that command line options (among 
other things) were more consistent. But as often happens, the 
coders were too busy coding to take a step back and consider this.

In any case, I like the fact that I can hop back and forth between 
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and the command line shell in MacOS 
without having to reprogram my fingers.

--Brett Glass