On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:19:39 -0600 (CST) Daniel Taylor <dante at argle.org> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Shawn wrote: > > > Unfortunately, this will be kind of the undoing of Linux. With all > > the varous distros out there, it's going to be difficult to get a > > "standardization" of Linux. Plain and simple. > > > > The big UNIX's have their differences as well, but are far more > > standardized on things than Linux will be for a long time. > > > Uh, have you used more than one "Big Unix"? > They are more different than Linux is from BSD. > > Linux is Linux is Linux. The differences between distros are more a > matter of what packages they choose to install by default than > anything else. > Uh, yeah. Take your pick: HP-UX (10.0x to 11.23), Solaris (2.5 to 9), AIX (4.3.2 to 5.x), Tru64 (4.0x to 5.1B). Reread what I wrote.... They (the big UNIX) are far more alike than Linux is IMO. Well, with the exception of AIX, which is a beast of it's own. But, the other three are very similar. The big problem I see with Linux is that each distro does it's own things differently. The only real underlying consistency of Linux is the kernel, and some of the base packages. Otherwise, things are different. In reality, we're entering the "big shake down" of Linux (IMO). Look at UNIX years ago, there were companies sprouting up all over the place. Now, there's only a handful of them. Linux is going thru the same thing, and we'll see some disappear and other come in. But, I think overall the total number of distros will drop to a handful. Linux is the kernel. That is all what Linux is. A distro is far more than just packages on it's base install. It's where they place things, tools they use for administration, etc. -- Shawn "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear." -Mark Twain Ne Obliviscaris -- "Forget Not" _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list