Re: Is Linux BSD or System V ?

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:16:34 +0900, Wad staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:10:53 -0900, floyd@xxxxxxxxxx (Floyd L.
Davidson) wrote:
"Roka" <Roka100@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I wonder how to know a linux is BSD or System V ?
Linux cannot actually be either BSD or SysV.

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 of
/etc/rc[0-6].d/ or /etc/runlevels/ ; if those are there, you've got SysV
style (or Gentoo style for /etc/runlevels/) init scripts.

and SCO (which might be just SysV?), BSD, and Linux. Note that they
are all three essentially POSIX compliant, but each has a totally
unique code base for the kernel and system utilities.

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.

Any take on why FreeBSD is not more popular? I find it extremely rare
to read much about it in the forums. It doesn't even appear to have an
alt. group. And with distros like DesktopBSD and PC-BSD you'd think
they would get much more exposure then they do!

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
partition tables, or reading the fine manual. I still found the install
annoying. YMMV though, and this *was* years ago....

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