The following is a list of commands or features that are deprecated. All deprecated utils are in maintenance mode and we keep them in source tree for backward compatibility only. What: line(1) command Why: useless, nobody uses this command, head(1) is better -------------------------- What: losetup -s Why: the option -s is in collision with the Loop-AES losetup dialect that is used in some distributions. Use the long version (--show) only. -------------------------- What: cryptoloop support in mount/losetup Why: depreciated in favor of dm-crypt. --------------------------- What: elvtune Why: useless for kernel >= 2.6.9 --------------------------- What: arch(1) command Why: deprecated in favor of uname(1) or arch(1) from coreutils The arch(1) has been added (during 2.13 development cycle) to coreutuls where it will be maintained as an alias for uname(1) command. ---------------------------- What: kill(1) command Why: deprecated in favor of kill from procps or bash build-in kill command ---------------------------- What: newgrp(1) Why: deprecated in favor of newgrp from shadow-utils ---------------------------- What: vipw/vigr(8) Why: deprecated in favor of vipw/vigr(8) from shadow-utils ---------------------------- What: last(1) Why: nobody uses this implementation ---------------------------- What: shutdown(1), simpleinit(1), initctl(1) Why: nobody uses this implementation