From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RZdIb-0003cW-Gb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:54:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32EFA21C09A; Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:53:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f53.google.com (mail-pz0-f53.google.com [209.85.210.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7144721C0C5 for ; Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:52:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dady9 with SMTP id y9so6383857dad.40 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:52:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=TA4wqVY36pRKswdcCPz3O1+F/msO2gRrB1559ng/rI0=; b=tILS4WmK/HPDSbIKADB0MVQVRZoltg2EWTO4eS5gPj7byz/Sf1lRARYeuaEwmu5cIg 4vMG3g9hwcikvbHeeh7jm8EGLlzYrFHTraWZjTMm2raVMiIL/kWwkQLwicl43bg72F6S 4d60b0Xkm5UIXwEbnbxElySKsGQ0Rlt4r8b70= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.191.7 with SMTP id gu7mr4343784pbc.61.1323586355656; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:52:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.58.135 with HTTP; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:52:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20111210185134.41f99745@rohan.example.com> References: <201112082009.36698.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20111208221108.GF13528@eisen.lan> <20111210185134.41f99745@rohan.example.com> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:52:34 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse From: LinuxIsOne To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: d71336e6-a6c7-4139-8cf9-4d92e147a7e6 X-Archives-Hash: d8c3ae1d9ef0289003285cde17a1e1ec On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > A very small selection of all possible Unixes work the same. > Ubuntu and Debian are quite similar as they have common roots. > RedHat works rather like an old Fedora (and to some degree that's almost > exactly what it is). > Gentoo looks and feels like whatever you decide to make it to be > (because it is so highly configurable and adaptable) > The fact is that the kernel make very little difference to how the > overall system works. YOU do not interact with the kernel, YOU interact > with a collection of programs called "userland", and these things can > all be very different. For example, I'm looking at three computers > right now that all run Linux, and they are all very very different: > - this laptop, which is set up as a traditional Unix with X, > - my phone running Android > - my wireless router/modem which runs busybox > Be careful of making rash conclusions about Linux. A Linux system is not > "like" anything particularly, it is whatever the person who built it > decided it should be. > What you will find is that desktop Linuxes share many common elements. > This is not surprising - all versions of Windows share many common > elements too. Thanks for this explanation. I earlier (before this post) used to think that it is the kernel which is a deciding factor..., but yes it is correct to say NO for this. Linux is really highly configurable at least for this reason is a better choice and especially Gentoo - which could be made to work like anything we wish (as you say) --- really great to know. ON one of the machine and in the time to come, I wold first read how to install Gentoo and then would definitely (100%) try to install Gentooo ---- at least a successful installation would make me know many things as far as Gentoo is considered.. Eventually I would come to these great mailing lists for the help, but since I am in another job, so it would take much time, but I would try.... Thanks.