If you think that finding a few config files or config entries using grep
and find is difficult try finding the right registry keys to actually
successfully remove an oracle install from the registry in windoze 2K. If
there is some difference from distro to distro it is because linux is
flexible and open enough for people to actually control what is happening on
thier own machines rather than giving over that control to the faceless
uncaring corporation that will decide for the slow witted every detail of a
configuration and not allow any changes. There is a certain responsibility
that comes with control - RTFM and understand what you are doing and how
things work then you will enjoy and applaud the flexibility and access
rather than curse the complexity. Getting a general purpose - highly
sophisticatd adding machine to behave like something you want to interact
with is a complex process. If you want to control that proccess enough that
you actually know what is running on your machine then RTFM and work from
understanding rather than FUD.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Jenkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 9:05 PM
Cc: Greater NH Linux Users' Group
Subject: Re: Linux Standardization (was: inted question)
Benjamin Scott wrote:
> Maybe it's my background. I started off in the Unix world as a junior
admin
> at UNH's Space Science Lab. They had just about every OS known to man
there:
> DOS, Win 3.x, Win9X, WinNT, MacOS, Novell, Ultrix, OSF/1, IRIX, SunOS,
> Solaris, VMS... you name it. Anything they didn't run, the folks
downstairs
> in the Research Computing Center did.
>
> The different distributions of Linux seem downright consistent in
> comparison. :-)
Hear, hear!!!
I support a variety of heterogenous environments (some as rich as Mr.
Scott's
above). I may use one or more Linux distributions even at one site. I like
what
different distros do. (Though, of course, any of them could solve the
problems.)
Finding where a configuration file or two is located is quite minor compared
to
how AIX does stuff compared to Solaris compared to Linux - disregarding the
various Windows variants, Macintosh, etc.
I find the differences between Linux distros to be akin to the different
layouts
in cars. It might take a few minutes to locate the glove box or open the
trunk
from inside, but we all can figure it out. We don't insist that all cars
have
exactly the same layout. Why should our Linux distros?
As the FHS progresses, we should find more consistency in any event.
--
Dan Jenkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Rastech Inc., Bedford, NH, USA, 1-603-627-0443
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