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poofyhairguy
June 19th, 2005, 04:47 AM
Here is a good description of all the major distros. Some things are WAY off (like Slack being based on bsd) but the rest it pretty good. I like this part a lot:


[Ubuntu] didn’t even exist (publicly) until October of 2004, and is already one of the very most popular distros. Almost everyone I know that runs Linux now uses it

Wooohooo..

http://www.tipmonkies.com/2005/06/16/linux-distros/

TravisNewman
June 19th, 2005, 05:31 AM
Slackware isn't BASED on BSD, but they tried to make it very very close to BSD/UNIX in the way things work, so it's a reasonable mistake.

gil-galad
June 19th, 2005, 05:35 AM
Well, the init scripts are modeled after BSD, which is probably where the mistake came from.

TravisNewman
June 19th, 2005, 06:05 AM
I guess it's based on the BSD system, as RedHat is based on the AT&T system, but it isn't derived from the same code.

Depends on how you mean "based on"

sapo
June 19th, 2005, 12:11 PM
Here is a good description of all the major distros. Some things are WAY off (like Slack being based on bsd) but the rest it pretty good. I like this part a lot:



Wooohooo..

http://www.tipmonkies.com/2005/06/16/linux-distros/

I said that ubuntu will rule the world :-P



Currently I keep my server running with TaoLinux a free-as-in-beer RedHat Enterprise Linux repackage, and for the most part use Ubuntu on the desktop. I’m not reccomending Tao or Ubuntu, but they seem to work best for my uses.