From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 14 18:03:08 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 94C9F3B2 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:03:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm9-vm9.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (nm9-vm9.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com [216.39.63.247]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 43D30B6D for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:03:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.39.60.170] by nm9.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Mar 2014 18:01:26 -0000 Received: from [98.138.104.100] by tm6.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Mar 2014 18:01:26 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp120.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Mar 2014 18:01:26 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bellsouth.net; s=s1024; t=1394820086; bh=cd0lBhLB0k8EaGPmPE+HeACKVo8tdD84RxiW9CwWXaY=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:Message-ID:Date:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-Rocket-Received:From:To:References:Subject; b=zzmHbzPVLx+4crkfbyKnP3plX18z7Gu5tEeFn3KklBl9O00fFYLHH7amWENdq/YW6RfGL/fjapnI+uCXqqaf2nmeNfjvC4w2mFIG6PxLOvYjxauSBZakYNsqJgzJv+JXhlNY6rM2SzoZTJC/D7dTrcMGM8n3Vq8b+VWBcWtB1Eg= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 228572.87896.bm@smtp120.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Message-ID: <228572.87896.bm@smtp120.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:01:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: Cp5amvAVM1nQPmBYf.ZEfBAXMFbeQBz4o1Y7i37xCLhE1zO OgxOBsNOAr3p8zqOSrtZG.Oyf0qQwRTnZnG12wq_Y5ozvK7tPZSjW0iHczox 2KqLA2Kh4XyivrV6UHpfrp9SWAAVo0W3RAnOKh_G4Y0CwQqsaeu8IBAKu0Fw w451GXBYr47Acy_cdgRT437lv4K7u0en6NsFagYU4uXvBqrpo3WjoP1K71kW _Mpm2bUUpqCbcxVOyzL6mb.eznVbhh60GeKnTpfQdTAqchPWi.3sYvIa9bqG oavMRKGEDReAWLTA5fjDgSub0thVJoZWqIaYl_BVXevgSPfQMBtPbG1ct9vd dwyPHASAzYGFbFAqlRG5LiLswYXrK8T8zBAfPF4tpYOf6RNPfYt4rsjJaMkE PTEjQUXsKczCxedhGNCxCCJc.oYQVrR4s8LqJjkyKT3szn6GtBgxydpsVwNM yiNOEb9lcbNEMcnLgzRKcC9SJLkFz4u4LqILE9swZL06HsrobSBpLyTbI8c. toBOXf.BuEycj5SP1r7PgFVt999YbCIZ80WZsDeDScv5wfy4l_oXqEfZIGaB ReoVWQSXLd.m3l.M- X-Yahoo-SMTP: Kz_aW1.swBBYof3zAD7.RWzXz9ZAQVDMml1VADsbgPT4Kq79LC0- X-Rocket-Received: from localhost (mueller6724@96.28.178.143 with plain [98.138.31.74]) by smtp120.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Mar 2014 18:01:26 +0000 UTC From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <20140314100444.33861b86f2bca55f06ed7c41@sohara.org> Subject: Re: If the BSD become known as Linux, BSD distributions will be millions just like there are on Linux? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:03:08 -0000 > On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:12:59 +0300 > Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos wrote: > > If the BSD become known as Linux, BSD distributions will be millions just > > like there are on Linux? > Well since Linux is a kernel and FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and > DragonflyBSD are all complete OSs in order to be correctly called Linux > they's have to switch to using Linux as the kernel. There have been builds > of the FreeBSD userland running on a Linux kernel, they weren't noticably > popular. So I'd say that this assertion has been proven false. -- > Steve O'Hara-Smith There are also builds of a Linux userland on FreeBSD kernel. Examples include Arch and Gentoo, though the primary project is all-Linux. Tom