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=?Windows-1252?Q?Udo_Schr=F6ter_=28Trionic_Technologies=29?= <udo.schroeter@trionic-solutions.de> writes:

> > Wind River Systems and other vendors will sell FreeBSD CDs, and there are
> > examples of dedicated systems using FreeBSD that come to mind, such as the
> > Nokia IP firewall platform.  Or were you talking about a "commercial distro"
> > in terms of "a company that provides/charges for technical support"...?
> :-)
> 
> Yes, something like that. I guess so far it has been done only with
> Linux-based systems, eh? I couldn't find any RedHat-like vendors out there.
> Anyway, it was just a dumb newbie question for better "insight" as to what's
> out there...

You're touching on a big difference between Linux and FreeBSD; FreeBSD
is an operating system, whereas Linux is a kernel which can be packaged
with different programs.  You can make do anything you want with
FreeBSD, modify it all you want, release it (or not) along with the
source code (or not), but you can't claim it''s FreeBSD any more...