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From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2004.11.05 08:32:20 -0500, Jeremy Faulkner wrote:

> wen heping wrote:
> |    There are so many Linux distribution such as RedHat SUSE Mandrake and
> | ....,while it seems that there is no other distribution based on
> | FreeBSD. Who can tell me why?
> |   Thanks in advance.
>
> Linux is just a kernel. FreeBSD is an entire operating system.

That being said, there is actually one... Debian GNU/kFreeBSD [1],
which is a FreeBSD kernel with GNU userland.  I don't see the point,
but it's actually there.

[1] http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/

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Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team

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