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2049 points bpierre | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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matt_wulfeck ◴[30 Mar 16 17:35 UTC] No.11391211[source]▶
microsoft is leveraging FOSS Linux to get Mac users. I think it's a real smart move.

The author points to using grep and Xargs and some other tools to quickly update a package. That's the key here. These bash/Linux utilities are productivy boosters for all the Linux and Mac/bsd people out there. I can't imagine living without them and they're necessary for any system I develop on (which is currently a Mac).

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samstave ◴[30 Mar 16 19:17 UTC] No.11392124[source]▶
Its actually kind of interesting that we dont have a literal "standard base" of tools that any OS should supply.

(unless I am missing something)

But it would make sense that certain things should be doable on literally any computer. grep, find, vi, edit, etc... etc... I cant come up with a complete list - but it would be great to start that direction.

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1. umanwizard ◴[31 Mar 16 05:51 UTC] No.11395244[source]▶
We have exactly what you're talking about. It's called POSIX.

"The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX)