Re: question

[Elie De Brauwer <elie.de.brauwer@pandora.be>]

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> Just let us say there are enough differences 
> I,m curious, does any one know the answer to this question; What are the
> main differences between suSE, Debian, mandrake, redhat, slackware? I have
> been to many different groups and sites and no one seems to know what the
> main diffs are, other then the name. I would think I could find a linux
> guru somewhere who could answer the question, but most are flavor specific
> not knowing all flavors and the diffs? Any one has an answer let me know, I
> would appreciate it.   thank you

There are a lot of differences, each distribution has its own package 
management systement (a way to handle installing new packages and depencies 
of other packages), suse, mandrake and redhat use rpm, slackware uses 
compiling from sources, debian uses apt, gentoo uses emerge etc.
Another difference is the install and the costum tools that are available to 
help the (unknowing) user do something. suse mandrake redhat debian 
slackware, this is the order of their user friendlyness.
suse/mandrake/redhat require more recent computer systems to install (because 
of the high load the installer has), while debian and slackware can be 
installed on almost _any_ system. 
There is also a difference in the way runlevels are handled, in the 
initscripts at startup,.....

Just let us say there are enough differences 

hth
Elie De Brauwer 
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