"Tania M. Morell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are the main differences between distributions of linux like > RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, Caldera... etc. Can anyone tell me? I'll try to explain this as coherently as possible. Caldera and Mandrake are very similar to Red Hat, which was the original. Caldera's installation and configuration is much more complete than Red Hat's... installation wizards, and so forth. Debian is actual Debian Gnu/Linux, and it is the only distribution where completely free software forms the OS... "non-free" software, as they say, is in a separate part of the distribution. Slackware was the first distribution that actually worked, and I still like it's packaging scheme (plain old compressed tarballs) much better than the others. I don't see why someone couldn't come up with a standard pkgadd and pkgrm, that all of the distributions could use. Ah, the wonders of free enterprise... ************ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
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