Re: Curious Question.
I am not sure that's always true; try looking at addgroup in redhat and
addgroup in debian. Or the different choices UID's, or file placement.
Enough that I rather dislike distro hopping.
/Blatant Debian plug/
Also I almost alway agree with Debian's file placement.
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On 15 Feb 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
> Dan Willard <dan@macrosys.com> writes:
> | Just how closely does Linux match with Unix? If I know Linux and sitdown
> | in front of a Unix terminal am I just going to notice a few differences (ie
> | file locations and a couple of commands) or am I going to be lost? I think
> | I already know the answer but would like confirmation. Thanks.
>
> Almost without exception Unix is Unix at the user level, especially
> basic commands and tools, e.g., ls, df, du, awk, grep, etc. Things can
> vary more at sys admin level though. For example, even among Linux
> distributions there's the variation in "init", with some distros using
> SYSV and others using BSD style init schemes. Even at this level
> though there's usually a root commonality. For example I don't think
> I've ever run across a Unix system that didn't use /etc/passwd.
>
> Even with this variation at the sys admin level, once you've learned
> one flavor of Unix it's much easier to become familiar with a
> different flavor.
>
> Gary
>
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