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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linux::distribution::packages
Linux::Distribution::Packages(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Linux::Distribution::Packages(3pm)
NAME
Linux::Distribution::Packages - list all packages on various Linux distributions
SYNOPSIS
use Linux::Distribution::Packages qw(distribution_packages distribution_write);
$linux = new Linux::Distribution::Packages({'format' => 'csv', 'output_file' => 'packages.csv'});
$linux->distribution_write();
# Or you can (re)set the options when you write.
$linux->distribution_write({'format' => 'xml', 'output_file' => 'packages.xml'});
# If you want to reload the package data
$linux->distribution_packages();
DESCRIPTION
This is a simple module that uses Linux::Distribution to guess the linux distribution and then uses the correct commands to list all the
packages on the system and then output them in one of three formats: native, csv, and xml.
Distributions currently working: debian, ubuntu, fedora, redhat, suse, gentoo, slackware, redflag.
The module inherits from Linux::Distribution, so can also use its calls.
EXPORT
None by default.
TODO
* Add the capability to correctly get packages for all recognized distributions. * Seperate out parsing from writing. Parse data to hash
and give access to hash. Then write the formatted data from the hash.
AUTHORS
Judith Lebzelter, <judith@osdl.org> Alberto Re, <alberto@accidia.net>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
perl v5.10.1 2006-04-19 Linux::Distribution::Packages(3pm)