From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 4 12:23:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16206 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:23:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (root@jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA16192 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:23:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul4.u.washington.edu (root@saul4.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.2]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id MAA27962; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:23:33 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul4.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id MAA23541; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:23:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:13:19 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: "Daniel W. Samsyguin" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU!!!GNU!!! ALL, WhAt I NeeD!!! In-Reply-To: <3576D776.CFA0E973@leontief.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Daniel W. Samsyguin wrote: > Hey, gas, is htere any pssibility to port ALL GNU to FreeBSD? > Yes, I know, that bsd is an different standart of U*#X, but the >developers dont think bout it! > And I think, that BSD more stable, than GNU/Linux :) > BUT I WANT GNU!!! GNU WITH BSD! I think you have a misunderstanding. GNU's not UNIX! GNU is an organization that supports freely available software. GNU's biggest claim to fame is the GNU public license. Any software that is released under GNU public license is sometimes called (improperly) "GNU Software." GNU is not Linux. Linux is not GNU. In the strictest terms, the two have _nothing_ to do with each other. If I had to guess, I would say that _ALL_ GNU software has already been ported to FreeBSD. FreeBSD includes large amounts of GNU software. Bash, gcc, autoconf, to name a few. Much software that comes with FreeBSD is under GNU public license. In a nutshell, you can have your GNU and FreeBSD too. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ | 206-633-5994 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message