Re: MJR on Linux/OSS

["R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>]

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On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Devdas Bhagat wrote:


> Oh yes, you can run any distro with no big real difference between
> them. The major lines: Debian, Redhat, Gentoo. The rest are clones, or
> similar enough to transition easily between.

I hate getting religious and all, yet your linux distribution history is 
limited almost to a tunneled point of view <smile>. The dist history 
plays out like this

dist;           first release date;
- -----------------------------------
RedHat          summer of 1994

debian          august 1993

gentoo          sometime in 1998

slackware       april 1993

sls             ~ august 1992   <slackware is based off this defunct dist>



my basic issue with redhat, is they add so much code under the covers and 
do their own weird versioning to make it near impossible to determine what 
you are really running.  Course, since they have a support backend 
<outsourced for the most part> they have been successful in the corporate 
arena.  But, and I can't find the links now I once had, there was a neat 
page that outlined not only the history of various dists, but also how 
they interrelated, which dists were derived from which prior one and thus 
are kids of the parent dist.  sls/slackware being quite well rooted in 
their parenting  sibling distributions.

But enough prostlitizing...

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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