[ale] Where to Start?

[Geoffrey]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 00:52 -0400, m-aaron-r wrote:
>> Not to be contrary, since I believe the majority of enterprise
>> operations are still Redhat centric, but I was surprised
>> by the number of admin pros at tonight's meeting noting a
>> strong preference for Ubuntu Server.  The leanings
>> mostly come out of the strengths of apt-get / dpkg
>> over yum / rpm and the reliability of update installations
>> that apt-get provides. 
> 
> There are a whole host of other reasons, IMHO, to use something like
> Debian or Ubuntu's server distribution over the seemingly "standard"
> RPM-based distributions, but I'll hold my tongue this one time, since I
> think I have already said it all in at some point in the past.
> 
> The most important piece, I think, for learning how to work with systems
> built around Linux professionally is to really have an idea of how the
> system is assembled together and is works.  If you can tell the
> difference between a system that is _actually_ a GNU/Linux distribution
> and one that is not, then you're off to a pretty good start.  Some
> people would have you believe that every single distribution that has
> the Linux kernel also has the rest of the UNIX-like stack provided by
> GNU, but that is not always the case.

<raises hand>

So, what distros do not use the GNU tools?

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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