From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 9 7:29:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bogslab.ucdavis.edu (bogslab.ucdavis.edu [169.237.68.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B49FB155E2 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 07:29:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu) Received: from deal1.bogs.org (deal1.bogs.org [198.137.203.51]) by bogslab.ucdavis.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA00204 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 07:29:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from deal1.bogs.org (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by deal1.bogs.org (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id HAA25261 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 07:29:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907091429.HAA25261@deal1.bogs.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeLinux Reply-To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 07:29:31 -0700 From: Greg Shenaut Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've not used Linux, but I've been told that there is considerable difference among the several principal variants. Once a bunch of user software has been installed over the net, from the user's point of view (and to some extent, the adminstrator's), is FreeBSD more or less different from the Linux variants as they are from each other? And if the answer is that they are all pretty similar, then perhaps a customized version of FreeBSD could be prepared that emphasizes the similarities, distributed as FreeLinux or LinuxBSD. (I'm thinking in terms of a FreeBSD kernel with a Linux API in front, a reshuffled directory hierarchy, and several of the more prominent Linux applications--sort of a Linux emulation on steroids.) Why? You ask, "Why?!" I'm curious as to how many users would be attracted to a product incorporating the "Linux" handle, plus greater out-of-the box Linux compatibility, compared to more or less the same thing without it. After all, What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. -Greg Shenaut To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message