From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 20:10:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0169316A4B3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:10:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-03.tampabay.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.1.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EAF643F93 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:10:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbstep@tampabay.rr.com) Received: from 2416459hfc31.tampabay.rr.com (2416459hfc31.tampabay.rr.com [24.164.59.31])h923A61d017207; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:10:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Todd Stephens To: , Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:05:46 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: In-Reply-To: X-Marks-The-Spot: Yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310012305.46092.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 03:10:11 -0000 On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:42 pm, SoloCDM wrote: > Why do the ISOs seem to be three CDs of 600Mb each for RedHat > compared to 1.5 CDs for FreeBSD? I thought the files were larger > with FreeBSD and its tarballs. Not sure what you mean by that "its tarballs". Linux distributions come with an immense amount of software that generally gets installed with the OS. FreeBSD comes with quite a bit as well (enough to get your system up and running for just about any purpose you desire), but one of the intents of FreeBSD is to give the user a little more choice in what is installed. Read about the ports collection at www.freebsd.org. > Does FreeBSD offer all the packages from A to Z in their CDs? Not that I am aware of. "All" the packages available to FreeBSD amount to some 9000+ programs. > Does FreeBSD come with an installation package? It comes with a very good installation utility. > Is FreeBSD Linux or UNIX? FreeBSD is not Linux, it is based on the 4.4 BSD Lite developed by UC Berkeley. Due to copyright restrictions, one can not really call it Unix either, though (IMO) the BSD family is as close as you will come in a modern OS to the original AT&T 'Unix'. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato