more alternatives to windoze

[WaWAR_FA]

http://tunes.org/Review/OSes.html

[creedon]

Interesting, and kind of fun to look at.
The only downside is that functional does not equal practical.  You can have an OS that boots up and sits there as stable as the Rock of Gibralter, but if it has little or no software available, it isn't much good.
If Richard Stallman ever stops being so damned anal, I think that GNU Hurd will be the best of the bunch.

[ahri]

does anyone know how to make a symbolic link?
for some reason, they don't put that kind of stuff in manuals.

[Ice-9]

http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/unixhelp/tasks/links2.2.html
it's explained there, plus examples.

Found that by typing the question in Google.
Google is a newbie's best friend at times  

[ahri]

i did that and i didn't get a page witht the ln command. But i did get this page http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/unixhelp/tasks/links2.2.2.html which is linked from the page you gave me and a page on perl.com that mentioned a symlink command that didn't work.

Anyway, i did this --> #ln -s java /usr/bin/java

and it made the link, but when i type $java -version outside /usr/java/jdk/bin it says command not found.

how do i get java, javac and jar to work from any location without typing out the entire path?

[ July 04, 2002: Message edited by: ahri ]

[Ice-9]

Hmmm, weird, when I click the link I get the right page immediately   :confused:  
As for your other question, I dont know ....
The newbie I was referring to was myself  
I just looked up how a symlink was to be made and pasted the link.
But one of the regulars from thes forums is surely gonna be able to help you with this.

[Master of Reality]

'man ln'

ln -s /what/you/want/link/from /where/you/want/link

[ahri]

i made the link, that is not the problem. I want to run the program '/usr/java/jdk/bin/java' without typing out the whole path. I thought putting a symbolic link in /usr/bin would do it, but it didn't.

[Master of Reality]

it should have worked.

[ahri]

The first time i did it, it made a bad link. The link was 0 bytes in size and was not an executable. How strange. I deleted it and tryed again and it works now. Thank a lot for the help guys.

btw, i posted here cause i didn't want to open a new topic for what was supposed to be a simple question. I would delete these posts but i don't think i can do that. Other forums that use UBB alow deletion of posts.

[rsd]

You can also use alias:

# alias java='./the_full_path/binary'

 then just:

# java

it can be utilized for most common commands (I am lazy to type), like

when I type
# scob

it will do: ssh -l username cob666.myserver.tld
I have about 20 different logins, so this is handy, especially for these that I use IP's.

ps aux = psx
netstat -ale = nsale
and so on.
Yes, I am lazy.