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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Unix-based operating systems Post 302363804 by Corona688 on Wednesday 21st of October 2009 11:11:43 AM

10-21-2009

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Originally Posted by Tron55555

4.) The OS's I've been considering are RedHat Linux, Fedora Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Solaris, and BSD. Given the information I gave in the last post (about being a developer and whatnot), should I cross any of these off the list, or should I add any new ones to the list?

You won't learn a thing about linux running ubuntu, its far too convincing a windows ripoff. (As if in homage, its system requirements are almost equally horrendous, too.) And Redhat linux is closed-source now, Fedora is the open-source fork of the last open thing they had.

For a developer distro, I'd recommend Gentoo -- the only distro I know of where you can do "emerge xorg-x11" and have xorg-x11, headers and all without needing x11-dev, xorg-x11-dev, x11-headers, x11-drivers-headers, x11-kitchensink-headers, and three million others to complete the set before compiling X things will actually work. It also lets you install multiple versions of gcc and switch between them seamlessly. Installing Gentoo the old-fashioned way from the Gentoo Handbook is a crash-course in linux down to the bones.

I've also heard good things about SuSe. It apparently provides a decent developer environment. But again it has the millions-of-unguessable-developer-dependencies-package problem.

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sw_vers

SW_VERS(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						SW_VERS(1)

NAME

     sw_vers -- print Mac OS X operating system version information

SYNOPSIS

     sw_vers
     sw_vers -productName
     sw_vers -productVersion
     sw_vers -buildVersion

DESCRIPTION

     sw_vers prints version information about the Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server operating system running on the local machine.

     When executed with no options sw_vers prints a short list of version properties:

	   % sw_vers
	   ProductName:    Mac OS X
	   ProductVersion: 10.3
	   BuildVersion:   7A100

     The ProductName property provides the name of the operating system release (typically either "Mac OS X" or "Mac OS X Server").  The
     ProductVersion property defines the version of the operating system release (for example, "10.2.4" or "10.3").  The BuildVersion property
     provides the specific revision of the operating system as generated by the Mac OS X build system.

OPTIONS

     The output of sw_vers can be refined by the following options.

     -productName     Print just the value of the ProductName property.

     -productVersion  Print just the value of the ProductVersion property.

     -buildVersion    Print just the value of the BuildVersion property.

EXAMPLES

     % sw_vers -productName
     Mac OS X

     % sw_vers -productVersion
     10.3

     % sw_vers -buildVersion
     7A100

FILES

     /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
     /System/Library/CoreServices/ServerVersion.plist

Mac OS X							  March 10, 2003							  Mac OS X