08-26-2010
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skynet_boy
i tested FreeBSD & Gnu/Linux (Fedora). both are similar. which of following is best choice for me? for networking?
For networking, either will work. As you say, they are very similar. (Purists will foam at the mouth at them being called "similar", but it's true: Mostly the same or compatible programs, in mostly the same places, used mostly the same way.) BSD and Linux implement firewalling very differently though. Again, there's not a clear winner, they're just different.
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and which of them has future (for e.g not discontinued after 2 years later)?
Debian Linux is a common favorite for servers, and has been around in one form or another since 1993 so probably isn't going away very soon. They're sometimes criticized for not changing quickly enough, but this is for support and stability reasons; they do backporting when other distros would just want you to upgrade..
Last edited by Corona688; 08-26-2010 at 03:07 PM..
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LESSECHO(1) General Commands Manual LESSECHO(1)
NAME
lessecho - expand metacharacters
SYNOPSIS
lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...
DESCRIPTION
lessecho is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output. But any metacharacter in the output is preceded by an "escape"
character, which by default is a backslash.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
-ex Specifies "x", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for metachars. If x is "-", no escape char is used and arguments con-
taining metachars are surrounded by quotes instead.
-ox Specifies "x", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character, which is used if the -e- option is specified.
-cx Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
-pn Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
-dn Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
-mx Specifies "x" to be a metachar. By default, no characters are considered metachars.
-nn Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
-fn Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
-a Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted
SEE ALSO
less(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.
Version 487: 25 Oct 2016 LESSECHO(1)