Re: [orca-list] Is Orca compatible with Fedora

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com> wrote:
> It is indeed important to make the distinction.  Having said that, I have
> heard that it is quite easy for someone who knows Linux to translate their
> knowledge to the Unix world.  I have also heard that it is not as easy for a
> Unix person to move to Linux though for some reason.  You could probably do
> quite a bit towards learning Unix using Linux by installing the Korn shell
> since that is Unix's default.  Linux uses Bash or ZSH.  

They all support the POSIX shell standard, as far as I know, so unless you're
writing complex scripts you probably won't notice any difference.

Orca used to run under Solaris, the only UNIX variant ever supported. I don't
know whether that's still the case; I doubt that anyone has tested it for a
long time now.