On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A very small selection of all possible Unixes work the same. > Ubuntu and Debian are quite similar as they have common roots. > RedHat works rather like an old Fedora (and to some degree that's almost > exactly what it is). > Gentoo looks and feels like whatever you decide to make it to be > (because it is so highly configurable and adaptable) > The fact is that the kernel make very little difference to how the > overall system works. YOU do not interact with the kernel, YOU interact > with a collection of programs called "userland", and these things can > all be very different. For example, I'm looking at three computers > right now that all run Linux, and they are all very very different: > - this laptop, which is set up as a traditional Unix with X, > - my phone running Android > - my wireless router/modem which runs busybox > Be careful of making rash conclusions about Linux. A Linux system is not > "like" anything particularly, it is whatever the person who built it > decided it should be. > What you will find is that desktop Linuxes share many common elements. > This is not surprising - all versions of Windows share many common > elements too. Thanks for this explanation. I earlier (before this post) used to think that it is the kernel which is a deciding factor..., but yes it is correct to say NO for this. Linux is really highly configurable at least for this reason is a better choice and especially Gentoo - which could be made to work like anything we wish (as you say) --- really great to know. ON one of the machine and in the time to come, I wold first read how to install Gentoo and then would definitely (100%) try to install Gentooo ---- at least a successful installation would make me know many things as far as Gentoo is considered.. Eventually I would come to these great mailing lists for the help, but since I am in another job, so it would take much time, but I would try.... Thanks.
