12-03-2004
Neither is better nor worse than the other. There are many different flavours of UNIX and Linux - each with its own strengths and weaknesses.
On a laptop, you are going to be looking at one of the *BSD's or some distribution of Linux. Many people have personal favourites (mine is SUSE Linux) - but this all depends on your requirements and level of UNIX/Linux expertise.
For a beginner that wants good hardware recognition, go with Mandrake Linux, if you're proficient and want good hardware recognition go with SUSE, and if you're looking for a truly configurable and rock-solid Linux system go with Slackware.
Again; many people will question this and have their own preferences, it is all dependent on your needs and ability.
Cheers
ZB
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IPCS(1) Linux Programmer's Manual IPCS(1)
NAME
ipcs - provide information on ipc facilities
SYNOPSIS
ipcs [-asmq] [-tclup]
ipcs [-smq] -i id
ipcs -h
DESCRIPTION
ipcs provides information on the ipc facilities for which the calling process has read access.
The -i option allows a specific resource id to be specified. Only information on this id will be printed.
Resources may be specified as follows:
-m shared memory segments
-q message queues
-s semaphore arrays
-a all (this is the default)
The output format may be specified as follows:
-t time
-p pid
-c creator
-l limits
-u summary
SEE ALSO
ipcrm(1), ipcmk(1)
CONFORMING TO
The Linux ipcs utility is not fully compatible to the POSIX ipcs utility. The Linux version does not support the -b and -o options, but
does support the -l and -u options not defined by POSIX. The portable application shall not use the -a, -b, -o, -l, and -u options.
AUTHOR
krishna balasubramanian (balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu)
AVAILABILITY
The ipcs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
Linux 0.99 9 October 1993 IPCS(1)