At 08:34 AM 6/14/00 +0300, Artie Ball wrote:
>Hi experts,
>
> This question is probably laughable for most of you....but...
>hey.... if I don't ask I'll never learn anything.
Well ... this is a list for beginners, isn't it?
>I'm running a linux
>mandrake distro... the documentation say's it's based on Red Hat, does
>this mean that it is Red Hat?
No. It once was Red Hat, with trivial differences, but Mandrake has moved
beyond that. At this point, it is no more Red Hat than any distribution that
uses .rpm packaging. As I recall, Mandrake is optimized for Pentium and
hihger processors ... but don't count on the accuracy of my memory here.
>Anyway, when I was setting up Samba, the
>instruction give specific examples for BSD based and sysV based systems.
>How do I know which my system is based on??? Is there any documentation
>anywhere that highlights the differences between the various
>incarnations??
>
The distinction usually refers to how system initialization files ("rc"
scripts) are setup. By this standard, Slackware is the only important Linux
distribution that is BSD style; all the rest are SysV style. Inconveniently,
though, there is now a lot of variation within the SysV style ... and I
don't know anywhere that it is documented.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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