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Old 11-26-2003, 08:58 PM   #1
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The best linux program ever made???

I was wondering what you guys think what the best made linux program for any thing dont matter what the program does or any thing just wondering.
 
Old 11-26-2003, 09:01 PM   #2
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The kernel.
 
Old 11-26-2003, 09:09 PM   #3
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init
The first program I start every time.
 
Old 11-26-2003, 09:12 PM   #4
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I would also say the kernel. That is, after all, what gives Linux its stability in the teeth of applications that crash (yes, I have even had Linux applications crash but the computer stays up).
 
Old 11-26-2003, 09:14 PM   #5
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bash!
 
Old 11-26-2003, 09:24 PM   #6
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The kernel of course.

But the man command is really useful
 
Old 11-26-2003, 11:20 PM   #7
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ifup
 
Old 11-27-2003, 01:11 AM   #8
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ifup
What's that? Sounds like some redhat concocted script to me.
 
Old 11-27-2003, 08:30 AM   #9
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Xfree86
 
Old 11-27-2003, 10:56 AM   #10
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What's that? Sounds like some redhat concocted script to me.
From the man page:

ifup - bring a network interface up

Pretty useful
 
Old 11-27-2003, 02:37 PM   #11
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Linux is the kernel, the man program for example runs on many other OS's than just GNU/Linux, same with xfree86, bash and many many many others.
 
Old 11-27-2003, 03:03 PM   #12
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From the man page:

ifup - bring a network interface up

Pretty useful
ifconfig works just like that too.
ifconfig <interface> [up|down]
 
Old 11-27-2003, 03:33 PM   #13
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Linux is the kernel, the man program for example runs on many other OS's than just GNU/Linux, same with xfree86, bash and many many many others.
Technically, all programs work on all OS'es.

What is your point exactly?
 
Old 11-27-2003, 05:52 PM   #14
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Technically, all programs work on all OS'es.

What is your point exactly?
You can't say 'best linux program' as linux is a kernel, GNU/Linux is the operating system.
Everybody calls GNU/Linux plain "Linux" and that's not correct.
It seems like nobody even cares anymore to get it right.

And no, not every program works on every OS.
Try compiling a Win32 program on *BSD, should keep you
busy for a while.
 
Old 11-27-2003, 05:54 PM   #15
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So you are saying that programmation languages like C and C++ can not be compiled on different operating systems?

I think most of the people here understand that linux is a kernel only...
 
  


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