From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 26 11: 7: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10E6837B933 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 11:07:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA60338; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 11:07:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <022101bf9756$7899f300$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "freebsd-questions" , "Brad Tashenberg" Subject: Re: About FreeBSD Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 11:07:00 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG All your questions are answered in depth at http://www.freebsd.org, so I'll just summarize here: >I am leaning toward the Unix platform to allocate my interests. Is FreeBSD a >direct descendant of the BSD-Unix operating system? I ask because in the >description, it states it as a "Unix-like operating system." Yes, it is a direct descendant of 4.4BSD-Lite2. It's called "Unix-like" because "Unix" is a registered trademark... >Also, is the system fully multi-tasked? But, of course! Multi-tasking and multi-user... >The documentation stated that the FreeBSD OS is based with the X-Windows >system. When personally altering the system, is it possible to remove this >aspect from the system or will this have serious repercussions on the >overall system? X-Windows (XFree86) is available for FreeBSD, but it's not a part of it, per se. Not installing it won't cause any harm. >The last question I have would be is FreeBSD based on a Mach kernel? Or is >the kernel uniquely developed by FreeBSD developers themselves. The FreeBSD kernel is it's own, not the Mach kernel. --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message