PManalastas... hmmm... is this who i believe it is?
Dr. Pablo Manalastas? PHD? Ateneo's God of Linux? Sir!!!!!
hehehehe!!! Your pupil needs help! :)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pablo Manalastas
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 11:02 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [plug] Linux Distributions
>
>
> On Fri, 11 May 2001, M. Yu wrote:
>
> > RedHat is a distribution of an OS called Linux just like MSDOS, DRDOS or
> > QDOS (or was it QuickDOS?) were distributions of DOS.
>
> The analogy is not quite accurate.
>
> RedHat, Debian, Slackware, etc are Linux distributions: they all use the
> Linux kernel.
>
> On the other hand, DOS refers to MSDOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System),
> but DRDOS and QDOS are not DOS distributions. DRDOS and QDOS do not
> come with the DOS kernel (io.sys, msdos.sys), but are both independently
> written DOS-workalikes.
>
> One of the machines I use boot to OpenDOS, which runs loadlin,
> which loads Linux. The Linux partition can be anywhere, even beyond
> the 1024 track limit imposed by most bootloading programs.
> So (Open)DOS can be quite useful, even in this modern age when most
> users consider it dead!
>
> PManalastas
>
>
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