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Re:We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD by ori_b on Monday January 24, 2022 @03:57PM (#30063929)
On Linux, the last commit on it was about a decade ago.

On FreeBSD, the last commit on it was last week.

They're not the same tool, and FreeBSD didn't abandon their core tools, because they're part of the base system.

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Re:We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD by tytso on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:20PM (#30066132)
The last commit for the source code of ifconfig, route, et. al, for Linux was as of this writing, about six weeks ago:

https://sourceforge.net/p/net-tools/code/ci/4030929bb6f3ee6f...

It's still used in some user spaces, and the Linux kernel supports the system calls for net-tools still today, because of the Torvalds Prime Directive, "though shalt not break userspace".

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Re:We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD by Datagenerator on Monday January 24, 2022 @05:46PM (#30065156)
The FreeBSD POLA design principle makes sure fundamental tools don't disappear or worse double over the years. Linux distributions differ vastly from vendor to vendor.
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