[CentOS] Two ftp clients? Why?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Aug 2 21:41:08 UTC 2011


On 8/2/2011 4:25 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Chris Weisiger wrote:
>> Would that be the same as:
>> why are there multiple desktops: kde gnome
>
> fvwm, icewm, busybox, etc....
>
>> why are there multiple browsers: firefox konquerer
>> why are there multiple text editors: vim joe nano
>
> ROTFLMAO! You forgot emacs (take it to alt.religion.editors)
>
>> why are there multiple mail distribution tools: sendmail, exim, postfix
>
> fetchmail, too.
>
> It's the Unix Way: not "how can I do this?", but "of all the ways I can do
> it, which would I prefer?"

No, its 'how can I repeat old mistakes' instead of learning from them or 
building on them.

But back to the original problem, why would anyone use ftp in this 
century when rsync or http(s) are so much easier to manage?

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com




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