12-10-2001
Need something new to play with
I posted this question in the dummies forums, but I would like to get a more expert opinion... I am looking for a new OS to play with. I have a celron 450 running slackware linux, a powermac G4 450 running Mac OS X (Which by the way has 81 days of uptime as of this moment), a PowerBook G3 running Linux PPC, and an AMD 1.4GHZ running win2k. What I'm looking for is something Unix based, but a little different for a Duron 950 system I'm putting together out of spare bits and pieces. Any and all ideas are appreciated, but I'm thinking something other than linux or BSD. What if any advantage does Solaris have? I'm istalling Solaris 8 this weekend to have a look see... What else can ya'll think of that you've tried, or want to try? Thanks in advance for any suggestions
-daniel
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Last edited by oombera; 02-20-2004 at 12:48 PM..
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
linux::distribution::packages
Linux::Distribution::Packages(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Linux::Distribution::Packages(3pm)
NAME
Linux::Distribution::Packages - list all packages on various Linux distributions
SYNOPSIS
use Linux::Distribution::Packages qw(distribution_packages distribution_write);
$linux = new Linux::Distribution::Packages({'format' => 'csv', 'output_file' => 'packages.csv'});
$linux->distribution_write();
# Or you can (re)set the options when you write.
$linux->distribution_write({'format' => 'xml', 'output_file' => 'packages.xml'});
# If you want to reload the package data
$linux->distribution_packages();
DESCRIPTION
This is a simple module that uses Linux::Distribution to guess the linux distribution and then uses the correct commands to list all the
packages on the system and then output them in one of three formats: native, csv, and xml.
Distributions currently working: debian, ubuntu, fedora, redhat, suse, gentoo, slackware, redflag.
The module inherits from Linux::Distribution, so can also use its calls.
EXPORT
None by default.
TODO
* Add the capability to correctly get packages for all recognized distributions. * Seperate out parsing from writing. Parse data to hash
and give access to hash. Then write the formatted data from the hash.
AUTHORS
Judith Lebzelter, <judith@osdl.org> Alberto Re, <alberto@accidia.net>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
perl v5.10.1 2006-04-19 Linux::Distribution::Packages(3pm)