Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 13:08:56 +0200 (SAT) From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: J.Kuan@ecs.soton.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Between FreeBSD and Linux Message-ID: <E0yfN1s-0004XO-00@ns.cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <35698A08.6EA51233@ecs.soton.ac.uk> from Joseph Kuan at "May 25, 98 04:11:04 pm"
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Joseph Kuan wrote: > > I am just a normal Linux user, don't know much about how the FreeBSD and > Linux being developed. Both are being developed by volunteers who co-ordinate their efforts via the net. The Linux development methodology is more anarchic by design. > I have read the web page, I thought Linux is an operating system by > incoporating GNU stuff. Not sure what you mean. Linux is really just an OS kernel. Add to it a whole array of tools and utilities, and it becomes a functioning Unix-like OS. People have different ideas as to exactly which tools to add and how, and hence you have a whole array of Linux "distributions", e.g. Slackware, RedHat, etc. > Sometimes I see some BSD directories with Linux, but I don't know what > they for. Although the Linux crowd seems to favour GNU software, many of the bits that get distributed in Linux distributions can trace their roots back to the BSD project. -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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