From: corywest@rice.edu (Cory West) Subject: Difference between Root Disk utils and GNU packages? Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1992 08:34:14 GMT
I was wondering what the difference is between utils on the
root disk and the utils in the GNU package? I currently have
the textutils, shutils, and fileutils all installed on my system
and am not using the things from the root disk that are duplicates.
I have noticed that the GNU utils are huge compared to the root
disk utils, but since these things are seldom run for long periods
of time and I have the resources, I didn't pay too much attention
to that.
Are there any arguments for or against using these over the
root disk supplied utils (I speak only of duplicated utils, not
unique root disk linux utils)? I was just curious what everyone
thought and wanted to check before chucking the root disk duplicates.
Cory West