Subject: Re: Suse 8.0 and Samba startup?
From: Arthur Corliss (arthur@corlissfamily.org)
Date: Wed May 22 2002 - 13:34:46 AKDT
> Cisco wrote in <20020523000900.60533.qmail@web13808.mail.yahoo.com>:
> >
> > The documentation also refers to two different "styles" of unix:
> > a) BSD Unix
> > b) System V Unix
> > Which type does Linux belong to?
>
> Both, if you can believe that. :) It's kind of a cross-breed.
>
> Init scripts are even different styles from one distro to the
> next. Slackware, for instance, uses SysV init scripts, but if
> I'm not mistaken, redhat and debian use BSD style.
Actually, it's the opposite. Slack is BSD'ish, while most other Linux
distros are SysV'ish. The primary differences are simple: BSD uses run
level *scripts* to bring the system up and down, while SysV uses a script
framework that process symlinks in run-level directories to do the same.
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