Re: [fw-wiz] MJR on Linux/OSS

From: R. DuFresne (dufresne_at_sysinfo.com)
Date: 03/10/05

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    To: Devdas Bhagat <devdas@dvb.homelinux.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 22:19:27 -0500 (EST)

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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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