ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin) writes:
>On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux, in article
><fsrbpm$odl$1@scrotar.nss.udel.edu>, Douglas O'Neal wrote:
>>The differences between the default installs of Redhat ES5 and Debian 4
>>are on the same order as the differences between SunOS 4.x and SGI Irix
>>V4.x.
In light of your comments later, the difference is much less than the that
difference then. Sheesh. All versions use the "same" kernel ( maybe
different versions) all use the gnu utilities. The differences are in
exactly how the init files are set up, how the gui is set up (gnome of KDE)
by default( you can use eitehr on any of them) which extra programs
(ooffice, acroread,....) are installed by default, and the helper gui
application to assist in system setup. Ie, virtually nothing on the level
of use intereaction is different ( except KDE/Gnome)
>Same order, meaning same gross number of differences - yeah, I can
>sorta buy that.
>>For the CLI user they are almost identical as both were BSD-based.
>Say WHAT??? Why did I have to carry a cheaters book with sections
>for SunOS 4.1.x, another for some ancient version if IRIX (most of
>the SGI boxes were running something later - 6.1.something), not to
>forget OSF/1 (please don't barf on the carpets). Then we also had a
>few Sparcs running Sol 5.5, and also had to put up with HPUX 10.mumble
>(for some bizarre reason, we had one HP 9000, and an RS/6000 running
>AIX 4.1.3). So tell me, what are the common options you use to 'ps',
>and 'ping'? My ~/.profile attempted to figure what P.O.S O/S was
>running, set the PS1 prompt to be the name/version of the O/S, set the
>PATH to include /usr/ucb/bin if needed to get around some of the worst
>of the abominations, and a number of aliases to try to avoid a lot of
>other pitfalls. "It's a UNIX system! I know this!" Yeah,
right.
>>However, the desktop environments were generally different
>I tried to avoid using X on all but my own workstation, and even
>there the main use was to give me a bunch of xterms.
You know, your attempt to understand what other people say is seriously
deficient.
>>and the administration tools were quite different.
>If you're talking about the GUI crap, I avoided that as much as possible.
>The cheater book told me what files I needed to mess with, and that was
>the end of that problem.
Fine then you will not notice almost any difference.
>>"Flavor" was the terminology adopted at the time to encompass
the
>>differences between the large number of Unix variants. The
>>differences in flavors could be dramatic (DEC Ultrix vs. AT&T SVR4)
>That's the reason for that cheaters book.
You do not need a cheaters book for Linux since all you want to do is
command line stuff.
>>or subtle (RiscOS/Motif vs. SGI Irix), just as in sensory taste.
>that could still whip the legs out from underneath you just as
>easily. We still walked into a buzz saw regularly.
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