05-09-2011
Yes, yes we do. wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operating_systems
wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions
And that doesn't cover many of the smaller experimental os's and the like. It adds variety. It is like asking why are there so many different types of cars or breads. They all drive and taste differently. Also they are tailored to suit their purpose. I know there are several that have spawned from the medical industry.
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pod2wiki
POD2WIKI(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation POD2WIKI(1p)
NAME
pod2wiki - A utility to convert Pod documents to Wiki format.
SYNOPSIS
pod2wiki [--style --noerrata --help --man] podfile [outfile]
Options:
--style wiki style (defaults to wiki. See --help)
--noerrata don't generate a "POD ERRORS" section
--help brief help message
--man full documentation
DESCRIPTION
This program is used for converting Pod text to Wiki text.
Pod is Perl's Plain Old Documentation format. See "man perlpod" or "perldoc perlpod".
A Wiki is a user extensible web site. It uses very simple mark-up that is converted to Html. For an introduction to Wikis see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
OPTIONS
podfile
The input file that contains the Pod file to be converted. It can also be stdin.
outfile
The converted output file in wiki format. Defaults to stdout if not specified.
--style or -s
Sets the wiki style of the output. If no "style" is specified the program defaults to "wiki". The available options are:
wiki
This is the original Wiki format as used on Ward Cunningham's Portland repository of Patterns. See http://c2.com/cgi/wiki
kwiki
This is the format as used by Brian Ingerson's Kwiki: http://www.kwiki.org
usemod
This is the format used by the Usemod wikis. See: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
twiki
This is the format used by TWiki wikis. See: http://twiki.org/
tiddlywiki
This is the format used by the TiddlyWiki. See: http://www.tiddlywiki.com/
textile
The Textile markup format as used on GitHub. See: http://textile.thresholdstate.com/
wikipedia or mediawiki
This is the format used by Wikipedia and MediaWiki wikis. See: http://www.mediawiki.org/
moinmoin
This is the format used by MoinMoin wikis. See: http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinWiki
confluence
This is the format used by Confluence. See: http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/
--noerrata or -noe
Don't generate a "POD ERRORS" section at the end of the document. Equivalent to the "Pod::Simple::no_errata_section()" method.
--help or -h
Print a brief help message and exits.
--man or -m
Prints the manual page and exits.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
Please refer to the DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY in Pod::Simple::Wiki.
AUTHOR
John McNamara jmcnamara@cpan.org
COPYRIGHT
X MMIII-MMVIII, John McNamara.
All Rights Reserved. This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.10.1 2009-08-26 POD2WIKI(1p)