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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers So many types of LINUX's! Post 37440 by Minnesota Red on Wednesday 18th of June 2003 09:05:23 PM

06-18-2003

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So many types of LINUX's!

I installed Redhat into my system. The reason? This was the version my friend was running and he told me about this one, so I downloaded and installed it. Simple enough Smilie

But as I am searching the net, I am coming across many other forms of linux made by other companies. Redhat seems to be the most popular (maybe this is reason my friend suggested it to me Smilie

), but I have another friend who runs his web server using debian. I have also come across suse, mandrakesoft, slackware, and caldera.

My question is what are the main differences between these different versions? As a newbie, is this a difference I would likely notice? What would be the pros of using some of these versions of linux over the other?

Sorry if my question seems really broad, but I would like to find out why there are so many choices and what the differences are so I can make the best choice for myself.

Thanx

M.R. Smilie

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uuid_compare

UUID_COMPARE(3) 						    Libuuid API 						   UUID_COMPARE(3)

NAME

       uuid_compare - compare whether two UUIDs are the same

SYNOPSIS

       #include <uuid/uuid.h>

       int uuid_compare(uuid_t uu1, uuid_t uu2)

DESCRIPTION

       The uuid_compare function compares the two supplied uuid variables uu1 and uu2 to each other.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns	an  integer  less  than, equal to, or greater than zero if uu1 is found,  respectively, to be lexigraphically less than, equal, or
       greater than uu2.

AUTHOR

       Theodore Y. Ts'o

AVAILABILITY

       libuuid is part of the util-linux-ng package since version 2.15.1 and is  available  from  ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-
       ng/.

SEE ALSO

       uuid(3), uuid_clear(3), uuid_copy(3), uuid_generate(3), uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3), uuid_unparse(3)

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