[wellylug] [Fwd: Distrowatch]

[Cliff Pratt]

Martin Bähr wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:39:02PM +1200, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> 
>>The two main forks are the Debian/apt fork and the 
>>RedHat/rpm fork. There are source forks, like Gentoo.
> 
> i would not call them forks (nothing is being forked here)
> but packaging systems, but otherwise that's basically correct
> (not counting slackware, foresight and a few others who have
 > yet other packaging systems)
>
The reason that I called them "forks" was because it was easier
than saying "a bunch of distros using the same packaging 
system"!

You are technically correct, and I maybe should have chosen 
a different term.
> 
>>All installs of Linux require at least a Debian partition 
>>and a Debian swap partition.
> 
> that sounds just wrong. there is no such thing as a debian
 > partition or debian swap partition. the partitions have
 > filesystems on them, those filesystems are the same accross
 > all distributions. likewise with swap.
 >
> linux partition and linux swap partition are the terms to
 > be used here.
>
Yes, I made a mistake.
 >
> partitioning is the same across all variants of linux.
> 
> what is different is which tools are offered to you to do the
> partitioning. some are better than others, some are easier and ask less
> information and don't give you the feeling that you might make a mistake.
> 
> greetings, martin.

Cheers,

Cliff