Re: Linux or Unix

From: curious (heyimjustcurious_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/27/04 

Date: 27 Jan 2004 09:20:12 -0800

Anthony Roberts <acrobert-at-ucalgary-dot-ca@ucalgary.ca> wrote in message news:<%goRb.302024$ts4.131589@pd7tw3no>...
> > There are versions of UNIX - such as Solaris - available, but you'd be
> > better off learning Linux - most of the command line utilities are the
> > same as UNIX, anyway. But if you learn Linux - especially the command
> > line - you will learn enough UNIX to be familiar with it if you end up
> > working on HP/UX or Solaris.
>
> A single user/single CPU license for Solaris is free... but the
> advantages of Solaris don't do much unless you're using a much bigger
> system than that.
>
> Technical merits aside, all the software is for Linux. The BSDs will run
> most of it, but they don't have substantial technical advantages over
> Linux unless you're looking at one of a number of niches. The BSDs have
> better documentation, but you usually have to be comfortable jumping in
> to the guts to follow the documentation, and you can (almost) avoid that
> with the big desktop Linux distros these days.

 I had just come to understand what BSD means, etc. recently after
getting started to learn Linux.

 Can you elaborate a little though (for a newbie of GNU/Linux like me)
what you meant by not needing to follow documentation of BSD if put
Linux on a desktop? Would you receommend Redhat?

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