From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 28 17:34:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from seward.nbrewer.com (nbrewer.dsl.visi.com [208.42.141.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E043137B400 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 17:34:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from chris@localhost) by seward.nbrewer.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0T1XoM28030; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:33:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from chris) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:33:49 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Keith Woodman Cc: Matthew Emmerton , Guillermo Leandro , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Kernel Message-ID: <20010128193349.B27559@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Keith Woodman , Matthew Emmerton , Guillermo Leandro , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <00e701c0897a$dfc2e0c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from keith@cydonia.net on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:43:37PM -0800 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Keith Woodman (keith@cydonia.net) wrote: > I think there is some confusion here. In FreeBSD the kernel and the OS > version are not seperate as they are in the diluted confusion of Linux > versions. When you said you are running FreeBSD 4.1 then that is your > kernel version. The latest BSD operating systems are based on the 4.4BSD kernel. This includes FreeBSD 4.2, NetBSD 1.5, and OpenBSD 2.8. So the OS version the kernel version are really not the same. In comparison, the current Linux kernel is version 2.4. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message