On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 04:02:45 -0800, Yef wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I curious what the significant differences are between Redhat
> (non-SPDMS) and Slackware Linux.
>
> Would I be wrong to say that the differences boil down to just these
> three?

Yes, you would be wrong. there are many other differences...


> 1. use of RPMs in Redhat instead of tarballs in Slackware

This is basically true. Although Slackware can use rpm to some degree.
And nothing is stopping you from using tar'ed packages on RH.


> 2. more GUI support for configuration in Redhat

I suppose this is true. RH does seem to have more gui config tools.


> 3. BSD-based config files in Redhat vs SysV in Slackware?

I think you got this backwards.
To quote from Slackware documentation : "Slackware uses the BSD-style
layout for its initialization files. Each task or runlevel is given its
own rc file. This provides an organized structure that is easy to
maintain.
There are several categories of initialization files. These are system
startup, runlevels, network initilization, and System V compatibility. As
per tradition, we'll lump everything else into an “other” category."

Info on RH's init setup can be found here :

http://squidward.mit.edu/rhel-doc/RH...down-sysv.html


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