From 1ae34915b918caa77d8d62994f8327c495e2bbc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "A. Wilcox" <AWilcox@Wilcox-Tech.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 20:09:48 -0600
Subject: Admin: more comparisons

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diff --git a/src/admin/1_intro.xml b/src/admin/1_intro.xml
index a3c3d21..653a5de 100644
--- a/src/admin/1_intro.xml
+++ b/src/admin/1_intro.xml
@@ -177,6 +177,13 @@
                     <entry>Available in specific repository only</entry>
                     <entry>dpkg or apt-get</entry>
                 </row>
+                <row>
+                    <entry>Fedora Linux</entry>
+                    <entry>Release every 6 months; support for 13 months</entry>
+                    <entry>All libre licenses allowed</entry>
+                    <entry>Available in specific repository only</entry>
+                    <entry>rpm or dnf</entry>
+                </row>
                 <row>
                     <entry>FreeBSD</entry>
                     <entry>Release every 2 years; support varies</entry>
@@ -208,5 +215,95 @@
             </tbody>
             </tgroup>
         </table>
+        <para>Lastly, let's have a more technical comparison of these environments.</para>
+        <table frame="all">
+            <title>Technical differences</title>
+            <tgroup cols="6" align="left" colsep="1" rowsep="1">
+            <thead>
+                <row>
+                    <entry>Environment</entry>
+                    <entry>Compiler and libc</entry>
+                    <entry>Initialisation system</entry>
+                    <entry>Shell environment</entry>
+                    <entry>Desktop environment</entry>
+                    <entry>Custom package support</entry>
+                </row>
+            </thead>
+            <tbody>
+                <row>
+                    <entry>Adélie Linux</entry>
+                    <entry>GCC, musl</entry>
+                    <entry>OpenRC (default) or s6</entry>
+                    <entry>zsh (default) or bash</entry>
+                    <entry>KDE Plasma 5, LXQt, or XFCE</entry>
+                    <entry>Yes</entry>
+                </row>
+                <row>
+                    <entry>Alpine Linux</entry>
+                    <entry>GCC, musl</entry>
+                    <entry>OpenRC</entry>
+                    <entry>BusyBox ash (default) or bash</entry>
+                    <entry>GNOME 3 or XFCE</entry>
+                    <entry>Yes</entry>
+                </row>
+                <row>
+                    <entry>Arch Linux</entry>
+                    <entry>GCC, glibc</entry>
+                    <entry>systemd</entry>
+                    <entry>bash (default) or zsh</entry>
+                    <entry>GNOME 3 or KDE Plasma 5</entry>
+                    <entry>via yaourt</entry>
+                </row>
+                <row>
+                    <entry>Debian GNU/Linux</entry>
+                    <entry>GCC, glibc</entry>
+                    <entry>systemd (default) or sysvinit</entry>
+                    <entry>bash (default) or zsh</entry>
+                    <entry>GNOME 3, KDE Plasma 5, or XFCE</entry>
+                    <entry>Some</entry>
+                </row>
+                <row>
+                    <entry>Fedora Linux</entry>
+                    <entry>GCC, glibc</entry>
+                    <entry>systemd</entry>
+                    <entry>bash (default) or zsh</entry>
+                    <entry>GNOME 3 (default) or KDE Plasma 5</entry>
+                    <entry>Yes</entry>
+                </row>
+                <row>
+                    <entry>FreeBSD</entry>
+                    <entry>Clang, FreeBSD</entry>
+                    <entry>FreeBSD</entry>
+                    <entry>Bourne shell (default) or tcsh</entry>
+                    <entry>GNOME 2 or KDE SC 4</entry>
+                    <entry>Yes</entry>
+                </row>
+                <row>
+                    <entry>Gentoo Linux</entry>
+                    <entry>GCC or clang, glibc or musl or uclibc</entry>
+                    <entry>OpenRC (default) or systemd</entry>
+                    <entry>bash (default) or zsh</entry>
+                    <entry>GNOME 3, KDE Plasma 5, LXQt, or XFCE</entry>
+                    <entry>Yes</entry>
+                </row>
+                <row>
+                    <entry>Mac OS X</entry>
+                    <entry>Clang, FreeBSD</entry>
+                    <entry>launchd</entry>
+                    <entry>bash (default) or tcsh</entry>
+                    <entry>Aqua</entry>
+                    <entry>Yes</entry>
+                </row>
+                <row>
+                    <entry>Windows</entry>
+                    <entry>Clang, Win32</entry>
+                    <entry>Custom</entry>
+                    <entry>PowerShell (default) or bash</entry>
+                    <entry>Win32</entry>
+                    <entry>Yes, with proprietary software</entry>
+                </row>
+            </tbody>
+            </tgroup>
+        </table>
     </section>
 </chapter>
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