From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 6 20:29:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEF4116A4F8 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2004 20:29:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D322C43D2D for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2004 20:29:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A3CA185642; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 06:59:29 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 06:59:29 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: wen heping Message-ID: <20041106202929.GD24507@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vni90+aGYgRvsTuO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help:why there is no distribution based on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 20:29:33 -0000 --vni90+aGYgRvsTuO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 5 November 2004 at 15:11:23 +0800, 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? Because it's not necessary? As others have said, Linux is a kernel. To make it useful, people had to package the rest of the system around it. The result is a "distribution" of the Linux kernel. FreeBSD has always been a complete system, so it doesn't need this kind of workaround. As somebody said, that doesn't stop people from trying. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --vni90+aGYgRvsTuO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBjTQpIubykFB6QiMRAlvGAJ0cdEPD7dWOd7dJQ54ohdXMU1bOJQCfaAMG a+EI8chVcn+VAfaSnuwJiFc= =cKCI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vni90+aGYgRvsTuO--