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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Looking for some advice Post 23189 by Calum on Tuesday 18th of June 2002 10:11:16 AM
Old 06-18-2002
some distributions are more user friendly...

basically, Linux is the kernel, the rest of the operating system (most of it) is made up of GNU software, ie open source stuff designed to be compiled on many versions of unix. On top of that, you are free to add other programs, binaries that have been compiled for your specific system, for example.

If you want to have a windows replacement, then i'd say try linux first. I'd recommend Mandrake or Red Hat, or a bunch of others but this is not the place for "what distro is best". That is totally dependent on your needs.

To download GNU/Linux or FreeBSD (a unix derivative, free and open source but based on the Berkeley Software Distribution rather than linux or GNU) go to http://linuxiso.org/

Good luck.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

uml_switch

UML_SWITCH(1)						      General Commands Manual						     UML_SWITCH(1)

NAME

       uml_switch -- switch daemon for user-mode Linux

SYNOPSIS

       uml_switch [-unix control_socket data_socket]  [-hub]  [-tap tun device]  [-compat-v0]  [-daemon]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the uml_switch program.

       This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       uml_switch is a daemon for managing a virtual network between user-mode Linux systems, with no connection to the host system's network.

       It will listen for connections on a pair of UNIX domain sockets, and forward packets between clients which connect to them.

OPTIONS

       -unix control_socket data_socket
		 Listen on the specified pair of sockets, instead of the defaults.

       -hub	 Act  like  a hub.  This means that packets received will be broadcast over all virtual links.	The default is to act as a switch,
		 where packets are only sent to the link matching the destination MAC address of the packet.

       -tap tap device
		 Connect the switch to a dynamically created tap device on the host

       -compat-v0
		 Specify control protocol version 0 compatibility.

       -daemon	 Run in the background as a daemon.

SEE ALSO

       linux(1)

       The UserModeLinux-HOWTO (link to URL http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.html)

AUTHOR

       uml_switch was written by Jeff Dike and others.

       This manual page was written by Matt Zimmerman mdz@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).   Permission	is
       granted	to  copy,  distribute  and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later
       version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.

																     UML_SWITCH(1)
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