Noise reduction tweak for non OSX

sem-dist ........
which: no gnutar in (/opt/ruby-1.8.7/bin:/home/michael/src/gilt/bin:/home/michael/src/gilt/tools/bin:/opt/apache-ant-1.8.2/bin:/opt/apache-maven-3.0.4/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/lib64/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/michael/.local/bin:/home/michael/bin)
...continues...