> While that is true, it is an inaccurate way of > looking at the problem. While the desktop interface > of any given distro could look and act like anything, > reality is much more simple. In reality, what the > user sees and uses is either KDE or Gnome. (to round > xfce and friends out of the picture) The spin > different distros put on their choice still leaves > said choice very close to the default configuration. > > So its not really that every linux distro is > different, its that Gnome and KDE are different, and > every distro uses one or the other. Which, because > there are only two options, means that some of the > distros are the same, and the rest are also the > same.
Remember, servers and serving is being discussed here, not the desktop (thankfully, for once). And I can tell you from first hand experience, in the server arena, *every* Linux dsitro is different. Files are strewn in different locations all over the place; files are named differently; file system hierarchy can look completely different from one distro to the next. Core functionality, my favorite example: the XFS filesystem, is in one distro but not in the other. For something so important as a high performance professional filesystem, that is a serious error. Just as a simple excersise: try to find the equivalents of /etc/redhat-release in other major Linux distros. And that's just a trivial example. > > And the same will happen to OpenSolaris with Gnome > and KDE distros of it. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
