[techtalk] Different Linuxes - what's the difference?

[Laurel Fan]

Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Oct-99 RE: [techtalk] Different Li.. by
Henti Smith at is.co.za 
>         location of some files ( userspace, config, other arb things)
>         syntax in commands ( there are small differences
>         C libs used.
>         startup system ( System V or something else can't remember )
and:

package management (debian and its derivatives use .deb, almost
everything else uses rpm or nothing, bsd has the ports dir and that
sys-whatever that i forget the name of)

installation (they have different install programs, which results in
different installation methods (hd, cd, bootable cd, ftp, nfs, etc..))
default installed stuff (some include wordperfect and staroffice, some
install 3 versions of emacs, they have different versions of the
kernel..) 

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