Re: does Linux have a registry?
- From: spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:43:31 +0000
John Thompson <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
On 2008-01-27, JM <j@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I was wondering.....does Linux have a registry like windows? If so, does
Linux come with any kind of registry mechanic tool?
No. Rather than a monolithic registry most linux programs use flat text
files (although I've seen some xml files lately) stored in /etc.
xml is just text too, though.
OK, it's text in a specific format, but, it's still text.
Although editing individual text configuration files may seem
unfashionably archaic, it does mean you can use simple tools to fix them
in the event of problems, and if one file gets hosed, the rest of your
system is less likely to be affected.
Indeed. The one thing linux users want less than anything else that windows
has, is a single point of failure proprietory opaque unreadable blob
containing every system config (and lots of application configs).
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