New distro question

Bill Ricker bill.n1vux at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 22:32:12 EDT 2008


>  IMO, the biggest difference between a RH-based and Debian-based system
>  is the packaging and tools and the basic sysadmin configuration:
>
>   RH                                            Debian
>   ----                                          ------
>   rpm                                           dpkg*
>   yum                                           apt*
>   chkconfig                                     update-rc.d
>   /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/if*            /etc/network/interfaces
>   /etc/xinetd.*                                 /etc/inetd.conf
>
>  Those right there are the major differences I can think of.  The most
>  obvious ones being the packaging tool sets.

And WebMin will paper over those LSB-non-compliance differences until
the distros can all just agree, right?

-- 
Bill
n1vux at arrl.net bill.n1vux at gmail.com


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