SPARC Live CD?

[Paul Lussier]

"Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:

> On 12/21/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>> ... gzip or bzip2.  And since both are gnu tools, I wouldn't expect
>> them on a non-gnu system ...
>
>   The point you seem to be missing, Paul, is that if one has spent
> forever working on "GNU systems", and is then suddenly put on to a
> "non-GNU system", then suddenly, all the options, syntax, features,
> etc., one has been using forever suddenly stop working.

I'm not missing that point, I'm assuming (and we all know what happens
there ;) that others also have similar experience to me, and are used
to jumping between a variety of different UNIX variants.  I'm also
assuming that most people learned UNIX before Linx and GNU were more
or less universal.  And *those* assumptions are incorrect.

-- 
Seeya,
Paul
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