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> If you come from any other platform, the idea of needing to look up which version of which flavor of Linux you have to find what specific commands you need to
by throw0101d 1y ago
> If you come from any other platform, the idea of needing to look up which version of which flavor of Linux you have to find what specific commands you need to use to do basic things looks insane.
As opposed to jumping between IRIX and AIX and Solaris? See Rosetta Stone for Unix:
* https://bhami.com/rosetta.html https://bhami.com/rosetta.html
* https://bhami.com/unix-rosetta.pdf https://bhami.com/unix-rosetta.pdf
Wasn't one of the points of multiple distributions was to allow experimentation and allowing for different philosophies of doing things? If you're going to homogenize things what's the point of having multiple distributions in the first place?
> systemd has done leaps and bounds for making Linux platforms look reasonably manageable and standardized.
So I've gone from service foo start/stop (which also works on BSD) to systemctl foo start/stop. Yay! (Of course some distros use "ssh" and others "sshd", or "apache2" versus "httpd".)