On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Can that analogy be properly extended to families {Ford vs GM} compares to
> {Debian vs Slackbuild vs Red Hat}[common repository structure] with each
> having competing lines {commercial vs passenger} might compare to {CLI vs
> GUI} and each having models {sedan vs mini van vs pickup} compare to
> {Ubuntu vs Kubuntu vs Edubuntu} with all the above coming with various
> horsepower (32/64 bit) and custom trim/apps.
Yep. The linux professionals can comment on the specifics of the
analogise, but those seem broadly appropriate to me.
> Having meandered through links of linked links, I'm now reading
> "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard"
> http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html
> and
> "How to Switch to the LILO Boot Loader in Debian GNU/Linux"
> http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm
>
> The later may be an opinion piece, but it helps me to ask
> myself the right questions.
The FHS was developed to make all distributions more compatible to
applications. It keeps libraries and system files where an application can
find them. Back in the day, each UNIX version required vendors to create
their product for a specific flavor of UNIX and that hindered the OSes
broader acceptance in the marketplace.
LILO is the original boot loader and still the default in many (some?)
distributions. GRUB apparently has some advantages for the user, but like
every computer tool, once you become familiar with how to use it properly it
becomes (ahem!) "intuitive."
Rich
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