Re: does Linux have a registry?
- From: Chris Cox <ccox_nopenothis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:59:11 -0600
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 15:32 +0000, JM wrote:
Thanks for the info Chris, John, Keith, Nico, Unruh and Matt. Its great
to know that no one will be controlling my computer.......especially
Bill Gates. You know, the name Bill Gates fits really well with that
guy. His software gives you a high credit card Bill for something that
isn't that good compared to linux, and then he puts Gates up in your
computer so you can't get to and control everything and he can.
One other thing.......can editing the configuration files for
applications or the OS mess up the computer? I'm assuming that you would
have to have a decent amount of experience to edit the configuration
files and know what you are doing so you didn't mess up anything. I
personally don't have any experience when it comes to editing
configuration files.
JM
Linux (as a distro or kernel + apps) is a very flexible platform built
mostly on free open source software. So... the downside is that
it's not necessarily easy to configure. There's a lot of things that
CAN be configured. If the defaults work (which they do in many cases),
then fine... if not, it can be a learning experience.
Every application (applications in *ix means system services as well)
does things differently.
Platforms like Red Hat and SUSE have attempted to create a set of
administration utilities and a directory of centralized configuration
information called /etc/sysconfig (btw, they are DIFFERENT and not
uniform across Red Hat and SUSE) to make life easier. In turn
the information that the utilities or file edits in /etc/sysconfig
are used by admin utilities to make all of the plethora (potentially
many) changes to config files everywhere without you having to
understand it all.
Unlike a registry though, /etc/sysconfig is somewhat editable and
is designed to be helpful. I know on SUSE anyhow, that there are
plenty of useful comments. But on SUSE you have YaST and so you
probably will never manually edit /etc/sysconfig files anyhow.
On Red Hat, they have a slew of graphical (only) utilities for
managing /etc/sysconfig. Similar to YaST, just not as integrated
and lacking a text gui option.
.
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