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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020) by mkl on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:18PM (#32372478)
> in next sub-version, the commands can have completely different switches

That claim seems crazy and doesn't match my experience at all. Please name a widely used program that changed its switches completely in a sub-version.

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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020) by dixie_land on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:38PM (#32372581)
GNU ls adding quotes and you have to actually opt out
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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020) by mkl on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:57PM (#32372668)
Do you mean displaying quotes in the output? That has been around for years (by default on many distributions) and doesn't answer my question at all. Please name a widely used program that changed its switches completely in a sub-version.
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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020) by alrlroipsp on Sunday August 07, 2022 @05:59AM (#32375244)
I too find this critique a bit odd.

Tho, switching between BSD and gnu versions of some tools, there is a mismatch of command line arguments.

IIRC I had to look up docs using tar and sed on BSD.

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