Just as Unix was haunted by a litany of complaints related to its shortcomings, Linux seems to have inherited the legacy of those complaints. Inside Linux, a new book by Michael Tobler, attempts to deal with many of those complaints and set the record straight.
This author attempts to harmonize the various distributions and their configuration files. For example, every Linux distribution contains a hodge-podge of different configuration files and each runs a number of different scripts during its initialization phase. These differences often make the concept of portability between distributions laughable. The author makes a noble effort to resolve these issues, offering up alternatives for many common distribution problems.
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