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Subject: Re: Help:why there is no distribution based on FreeBSD?
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On Friday 05 November 2004 02:11 am, wen heping wrote:
>     There are so many Linux distribution such as RedHat SUSE Mandrake and
> ....,while it seems that there is no other distribution based on FreeBSD.
> Who can tell me why?
>    Thanks in advance.

As others have said, Linux is just a kernel, and the various dists of that 
take the kernel and add various parts of the GNU userland to it.  The BSD's 
OTOH are a complete operating system including kernel and userland.  There 
are other distributions of FreeBSD however.  They are usually for more 
specialized tasks.  Examples include FreeSBIE (boots into a FreeBSD 
environment off of a CD), WarBSD (like WarLinux), m0n0wall, tinyBSD, picoBSD 
(only really for 3.x and 4.x), etc.

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