On 03/31 02:18 , Dave Sherohman wrote: > So I've gotta agree with Carl. Linux is Linux. Yep. They're all tending to gravitate to similar layouts as competition and cross-pollination of concepts encourages best practices. rpm -qa = dpkg -l /etc/sysconfig ~= /etc/default yum install = apt-get install SuSE is still a bit different from both; but Debian/Ubuntu and Redhat are pretty similar, just with some different names for files. I've taught linux administration with Debian, Redhat, and SuSE/Novell; doing it on Vmware guests, real x86 hardware, and even an S/390 mainframe. You get yourself into a 'mode' and just start operating in that mode. It is hard to not bitch about something when you've seen a better way to do it tho. Look at how much we hate Microsoft. That bitching is what drives progress. :) -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com