[wellylug] Linux satisfied customers required

[michael at diaspora.gen.nz]

Just to correct a couple of points in what is otherwise a very good
discussion...

Gerald Roehrbein writes:
>Another point I've figured out is the management of software in the
>different runlevels. In a Solaris or SuSE environment a user have to add
>a start or kill script in the rc directory of the runlevel and it works!
>If using RedHat a user have to use "chkconfig" to install a start or
>kill script. In my opinion RedHat is really a proprietary Linux. Very
>special.

No, in Redhat you can put files in /etc/rc?.d, just like in SuSE,
Solaris, etc., and things will work; chkconfig is there to "do that for
you" by creating the symbolic links to the real file in /etc/init.d,
as is best practice on all SysV init systems.  (I used to have great
trouble on Solaris systems with people or third party software which
would put files in /etc/rc?.d directly...)

>Debian is a distribution with a large number of installations in UK
>(from the German perspective). The advantage is the price. Since it is
>based upon UNITED LINUX (like SuSE) it's just a very good replacement
>for SuSE or RedHat. We do not use it in commercial environments because
>the support do not have Novell or RedHat quality. But nevertheless it's
>just a very good distro with almost any useful software at it's CD's.

Debian is in no way related to UNITED LINUX.  See
http://www.unitedlinux.com/ for more details about United Linux, but
basically, the Debian Project is older than United Linux, and is based on
a different packaging system to United Linux (among other distinctions).

Ubuntu in turn is based on Debian.

    -- michael.