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Re: How would I get debian unstable?



On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 11:27:09AM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> for Unix, try this:
> 
> http://opensolaris.org/index.html
> 
> Unix is like a twilight zone version of Linux, somethings work the way
> you think it would, some things don't. (Unix users think the same thing
> only in reverse).  Device names are very different, you will not have
> eth0, you will have (network card abreviation for the chipset)0.  It
> will be vary confusing if you don't know your chipset and have more then
> one NIC.  File system and HD formatting are vary different.  File layout
> is very different.  Commands are very similar.

Which unix?  One of the BSD derivatives of the original unix, or one of
the commercial ones, of which solaris is probably the only one you can
now get for free.  Like what is unix these days?

-- 
Len Sorensen


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