Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[James Mohr <suse_mailing_list@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 01 June 2003 21:20, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
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>
> - single-tree file system vs trees on drives; mount & umount
> - difference between a real multi-user OS vs one with "multi-user" bolted
> on; simultaneous logins, su, sudo, remote login.
> - file-permission; on directory and files, umask
> - /dev notion; block, character, special
> - X vs Explorer; windowmanager, desktopmanager
> - Online help (man, /usr/share/doc, KDE help center etc)
> - notion about security; root & lusers, why so many system users
> - scripting; (ba)sh, awk, sed, python
> - textfile editting: vi/emacs/joe/...
> - notion about processes and memory management as seen with ps or top
> - some basic network notion: ifconfig/route/ip
> - notion about kernel versions, distro versions, OSS licenses
>
> Theo

I like these ideas, particularly the " X vs Explorer". I think it would be 
extremely effected to address many of the issues as "Linux vs Windows". I 
have always found that by making comparisons you often learn three things 
instead of just one. First you learn the two different ways and the third 
thing you learn is that any particular aspect is different between the two 
operating systems. 

regards,

jimmo

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