From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 29 04:09:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA09512 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 04:09:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA09335 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 04:09:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0yfN1s-0004XO-00; Fri, 29 May 1998 13:08:56 +0200 Subject: Re: Between FreeBSD and Linux In-Reply-To: <35698A08.6EA51233@ecs.soton.ac.uk> from Joseph Kuan at "May 25, 98 04:11:04 pm" To: J.Kuan@ecs.soton.ac.uk Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 13:08:56 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.cityip.co.za/~wjv/ X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Johann Visagie Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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