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On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> A very small selection of all possible Unixes work the same. |
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> Ubuntu and Debian are quite similar as they have common roots. |
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> RedHat works rather like an old Fedora (and to some degree that's almost |
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> exactly what it is). |
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> Gentoo looks and feels like whatever you decide to make it to be |
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> (because it is so highly configurable and adaptable) |
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> The fact is that the kernel make very little difference to how the |
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> overall system works. YOU do not interact with the kernel, YOU interact |
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> with a collection of programs called "userland", and these things can |
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> all be very different. For example, I'm looking at three computers |
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> right now that all run Linux, and they are all very very different: |
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> - this laptop, which is set up as a traditional Unix with X, |
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> - my phone running Android |
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> - my wireless router/modem which runs busybox |
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> Be careful of making rash conclusions about Linux. A Linux system is not |
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> "like" anything particularly, it is whatever the person who built it |
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> decided it should be. |
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> What you will find is that desktop Linuxes share many common elements. |
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> This is not surprising - all versions of Windows share many common |
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> elements too. |
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Thanks for this explanation. I earlier (before this post) used to |
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think that it is the kernel which is a deciding factor..., but yes it |
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is correct to say NO for this. Linux is really highly configurable at |
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least for this reason is a better choice and especially Gentoo - which |
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could be made to work like anything we wish (as you say) --- really |
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great to know. ON one of the machine and in the time to come, I wold |
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first read how to install Gentoo and then would definitely (100%) try |
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to install Gentooo ---- at least a successful installation would make |
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me know many things as far as Gentoo is considered.. Eventually I |
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would come to these great mailing lists for the help, but since I am |
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in another job, so it would take much time, but I would try.... |
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Thanks. |
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