Alpha Core Directions

[Nelson Brito]

>I'm using PPC and Alpha machines as an excuse to finally learn linux, but
>when every release is different and nobody uses the same editors and setups,
>it's really, really stupid.  Mandrake does this, SuSE does that, and Red Hat
>does something else.   Then Yellow Dog does *almost* like Red Hat.  Then I
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that's the beauty of linux you can chose whatever tools you like the best.
there are even some famous discutions about which tool is the best for a 
specific purpuse, and i don't beleave that someone is waiting to know 
the answers ;-)
I am a sysadmin and i have several dist of linux in the machines i 
manage, if you want to know what i use on my machine i tell you it's 
win... upss, i mean Fedora3. My favorite dist was Suse for some years, 
but i swapped to redhat because i needed it for some alphas i have at 
work. as far as i know suse didn't have a dist for alphas at that time 
(i only knew redhat and debian).
this is not stupid, is freedom. but linux has some stupid things, and no 
one that uses it will deny that. I can tell you one thing i sometimes 
find stupid: the fact of diferent dist have diferent organization of the 
filesystem, lets say Mandrake puts named setup files under /var/named 
and redhat under /var/lib/named - i don't know if this is true but it's 
an example. In fact there's a file where you can define this for your 
self, and you can use /my_name/named for some vanity. Do you still find 
it stupid??

the best of it is that you have this lists where you can learn from the 
others.

unfortunately i have to tell you that OSX is Linux... if you don't like it!!

nelson