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>2.2. Differences between Linux distributions</A
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>There are many different Linux distributions and they all have their own
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idiosyncrasies and ways of doing things.</P
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>In particular, there are two different ways a Linux (and Unix) computer
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actually starts up, configures its interfaces, and so forth.</P
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>These are <I
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>BSD system initialization</I
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initialization</I
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will find occasional religious wars between proponents of these two
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systems. If that sort of thing amuses you, have fun burning bandwidth
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>Possibly the most widely used distributions are</P
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>Slackware
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which uses BSD style system initialization</P
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>Red Hat (and its former associate Caldera)
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which use SysV system initialization (although in a slightly modified form)</P
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>Debian
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which uses SysV system initialization</P
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>BSD style initialization typically keeps its initialization files in
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> /etc/rc
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/etc/rc.local
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/etc/rc.serial
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(and possibly other files)</PRE
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>Of recent times, some BSD system initialization schemes use a <TT
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directory to hold the start up file rather than putting everything into <TT
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>System V initialization keeps its initialization files in directories under
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> or <TT
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>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 6 15:12 init.d
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1776 Feb 9 05:01 rc
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 820 Jan 2 1996 rc.local
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2567 Jul 5 20:30 rc.sysinit
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 6 15:12 rc0.d
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 6 15:12 rc1.d
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 6 15:12 rc2.d
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 18 18:07 rc3.d
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 27 1995 rc4.d
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 6 15:12 rc5.d
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 6 15:12 rc6.d</PRE
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>If you are trying to track down where your Ethernet interface and
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