Is Linux BSD or System V 537
But, I thought I answered that! "Linux cannot actually be either BSD or SysV. It is possible to configure a Linux to be more similar to one...
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article emmm, yeah True - there are other fun things like which option do you use with command foo...
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:16:34 +0900, Wad staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Floyd is right here, but I don't think that's what Roka meant. Roka, remember that when you're dealing with technical people, they take great delight in answering the question that you *asked*, not the question you *meant*. I believe that Roka meant "How do I tell whether a Linux distro uses SysV-style init scripts or BSD-style init scripts?". ICBW though.
Anyway, just about every Linux distro uses SysV-style init scripts except Slackware. You can check for the presence or absence ofetc-rc0-6.doretc-runlevels; if those are there, you've got SysV style (or Gentoo style foretc-runlevels-) init scripts.
Yep. The userland utilities are typically GNU (in Linux) or BSD-ish (most everything else). Many admins install the GNU utilities even on commercial Unixes, because the GNU utilities tend to have many more options and features than the similarly named BSD versions.
It's been almost 4 years since I tried FreeBSD, but at that time, its install process on the x86 was a user-unfriendly PITA.0 And it couldn't read or write ReiserFS at that time. So I didn't get that much use out of it. Right... well, they've probably improved the install somewhat by now. Maybe I could take that old 2.5" 6G disk, put it in my laptop, and see how the FreeBSD install measures up to Debian Stable or Ubuntu some weekend.
0 I have no problem working on the command line, dealing with x86 parbreastion tables, or reading the fine manual. I still found the install annoying. YMMV though, and this *was* years ago....
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