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Operating Systems Linux Fedora CNR download problems Post 302401107 by pludi on Friday 5th of March 2010 01:35:24 AM
Old 03-05-2010
I'll (hopefully successful) compare distributions to cars. Every car has a combustion engine that works on the same principle, in an OS that's the kernel. A subgroup of those exposes the same connectors to the outside (aka API). Linux is a even more special subgroup of those, like an engine manufactured by one company, but used by many others, that might or might not make special adaptations, but nothing too extreme.

Around that, every car has a frame, some electrics, headlights, ... Some of those are specified by law (in the UNIX world the POSIX standard), but can be adapted for special needs. As software those are called the tool set. Most Linux distributions use the GNU line of tools, as they're completely Open Source. This lead to the term "GNU/Linux" to indicate that this distribution uses the GNU tools around the Linux kernel.

But if all cars looked the same the everyday commute would be even more boring than it is now. Same goes for distributions, which is why every one of them does some small thing a bit different. They're all compatible for the most part, but differ on what software ships by default, how certain things are configured, and how to configure some very specific parts.

The currently most used distribution probably is Ubuntu, which is derived from Debian GNU/Linux. Another is Fedora, which is the base for RHEL. One of the oldest distributions still out there is Slackware.

And then there are even more free Unices like FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, NetBSD, and MINIX. Or crossovers like Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
 

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URI::URL(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					       URI::URL(3)

NAME
URI::URL - Uniform Resource Locators SYNOPSIS
$u1 = URI::URL->new($str, $base); $u2 = $u1->abs; DESCRIPTION
This module is provided for backwards compatibility with modules that depend on the interface provided by the "URI::URL" class that used to be distributed with the libwww-perl library. The following differences exist compared to the "URI" class interface: o The URI::URL module exports the url() function as an alternate constructor interface. o The constructor takes an optional $base argument. The "URI::URL" class is a subclass of "URI::WithBase". o The URI::URL->newlocal class method is the same as URI::file->new_abs. o URI::URL::strict(1) o $url->print_on method o $url->crack method o $url->full_path: same as ($uri->abs_path || "/") o $url->netloc: same as $uri->authority o $url->epath, $url->equery: same as $uri->path, $uri->query o $url->path and $url->query pass unescaped strings. o $url->path_components: same as $uri->path_segments (if you don't consider path segment parameters) o $url->params and $url->eparams methods o $url->base method. See URI::WithBase. o $url->abs and $url->rel have an optional $base argument. See URI::WithBase. o $url->frag: same as $uri->fragment o $url->keywords: same as $uri->query_keywords o $url->localpath and friends map to $uri->file. o $url->address and $url->encoded822addr: same as $uri->to for mailto URI o $url->groupart method for news URI o $url->article: same as $uri->message SEE ALSO
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