Subj : Re: non-standard Slack inits?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : ibuprofin
Date : Thu Sep 30 2004 08:12 pm

In article <lemdnYtZ_tExEMHcRVnyiw@pipex.net>, arty5ta wrote:
>On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:26:10 -0500, Patrick McDonnell wrote:
>..........
>>Also something with non-standard init like Slack probably
>>isn't going to prepare you that well.
>...........
>
>can someone please expand on the subject. how non-standard Slack inits are?
>I've always heard that slack is the most simple and unix like...any more 
>views on the subject?

By default, Slackware uses BSD style inits, where only a few script
files are involved.  Just about every other distribution (and optionally
in Slackware) uses the SystemV style inits that are explained in the
From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.    BSD and SysV are the two great
religious camps in the UNIX wars of the 1980s and 1990s. Pay your money
and take your pick. Both work.

As for Slackware being the most UNIX like, what is UNIX?  AIX?  IRIX?
HPUX?  SunOS?  Solaris?  They're all branded UNIX, but they all have
as many warts as the 100 odd different Linux distributions.  Slackware
(and Debian, and Gentoo, just to name a few) are more command line
oriented than Caldera, Conectiva, Mandrake, Red Hat/Fedora or SuSE,
but all of those can be run from the command line just as easily.

        Old guy

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