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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Unix-based operating systems Post 302363720 by pludi on Wednesday 21st of October 2009 06:55:26 AM

10-21-2009

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Ad 1: It's a precaution I take when I start learning a new system: install it on it's own hardware, or at least in a virtual machine. That way, I can tinker around as much as I want, and even have the system completely unusable, without endangering my main machine. (Some) VMs have the additional advantage of allowing snapshots, so you won't even have to reinstall.

Ad 2: Wikipedia:

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[...]Open sourced components are snapshots of the latest Solaris release under development. Sun has announced that future versions of its commercial Solaris operating system will be based on technology from the OpenSolaris project.[...]

Ad 3: As I said, commercial Unices are usually tied to some hardware and support contracts. Software-wise, they aren't made to be cutting-edge, but stable and tested.

Ad 4: You only listed 3 different OS: Linux, Solaris, and BSD Smilie

. For the Linux distributions you listed: they are pretty much the same. Fedora is the "staging ground" for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. CentOS is RHEL, without the commercial support, and some commercial extensions cut. Other distributions include SuSE (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server/OpenSuSE), Debian (Ubuntu), Slackware, and Gentoo.

Linux distributions usually have tools for most languages included, and a huge subset of that is available on other platforms (eg. the GNU Compiler Collection [C/C++/Objective-C/Java/FORTRAN/Ada], Perl, Python, Ruby, ...)

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macptopbm

macptopbm(1)                                                  General Commands Manual                                                 macptopbm(1)

NAME

       macptopbm - convert a MacPaint file into a portable bitmap

SYNOPSIS

       macptopbm [-extraskip N] [macpfile]

DESCRIPTION

       Reads a MacPaint file as input.  Produces a portable bitmap as output.

OPTIONS

       -extraskip
              This  flag  is  to get around a problem with some methods of transferring files from the Mac world to the Unix world.  Most of these
              methods leave the Mac files alone, but a few of them add the "finderinfo" data onto the front of the Unix file.  This means an extra
              128  bytes  to  skip over when reading the file.  The symptom to watch for is that the resulting PBM file looks shifted to one side.
              If you get this, try -extraskip 128, and if that still doesn't look right try another value.

       All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.

SEE ALSO

       picttoppm(1), pbmtomacp(1), pbm(5)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 1988 by Jef Poskanzer.  The MacPaint-reading code is copyright (c) 1987 by Patrick J. Naughton (naughton@wind.sun.com).

                                                                   29 March 1989                                                      macptopbm(1)