Re: [tlug] State of "Linux" documentation [was: Books]

["Kenneth M. Burling Jr." <burlingk@example.com>]

On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 17:19 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Scott Robbins writes:
> 
>  > Well, one problem is that a book on say, RedHat, isn't going to help
>  > that much with Ubuntu. 
> 
> You're kidding, I hope.  If that's really true, how sad.
> 
> 

Why would it be sad? The fact that Linux is used to describe all Linux
based OSes is a bit of a misnomer.  :P  I am not going to say that it is
"properly called GNU/Linux," because I am not much into that camps
philosophy these days.  However, I will say that every distro has their
own unique way of wrapping their favorite tool sets arround the kernel.

Yes, they are based off of a unified kernel, but they are not a unified
OS.  This means that quite often, compatability is very high for
userland software.  It also means however that sometimes things will
work a little differently.  :)

There is a reason they all have thier own names.  ^.^