You make too big of a deal about the differences. Look, I've been around the world (literally) a time or two. Unix is like English. There are the English, Canadians, Americans, Filipinos, Australians, Hong Kong-Chinese, and Indians who speak English natively, in addition to some other places. We all have a different dialect, different slang, etc. But I've never had much trouble understanding speakers from other places.
There was a hit back in the 80's from Australia's own "Men at Work" called "Land Down Under", which started like this: Traveling in a fried-out combie On a hippie trail, head full of zombie Figure out what that means. Seriously, it's not too different from determining whether to use "ps auxwww" or "ps -ef". For a good administrator, it's not difficult. I move between various Linuxes, FreeBSD, Solaris, and the occasional OpenBSD with little trouble. Things are sometimes different, the shells might be a little different, commands might be a little different, but you figure it out, right? It doesn't hurt that I've use actual BSD and actual System V both in their pure form, so it was perhaps easier for me to use the mixtures that we have today. But I refuse to believe that it's that difficult for anyone with a basic understanding of Unix. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
