From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 14 07:45:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA13818 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 07:45:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA13806 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 07:45:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0zIYTL-0003cq-00; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 15:15:15 +0200 Message-ID: <19980914151515.A13919@cityip.co.za> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 15:15:15 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: Kris Carlsen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Understanding FreeBSD Mail-Followup-To: Kris Carlsen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <35F850C7.62775628@slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <35F850C7.62775628@slip.net>; from Kris Carlsen on Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 03:20:55PM -0700 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 at 15:20 SAT, Kris Carlsen wrote: > > Where does it fit in? > What makes it different / better/ worse than Linux? My stock reply to this question: - Linux is a PC OS that happens to be more or less Unix. - FreeBSD is BSD Unix that happens to run on PCs. Of course, there's more to it... ;-) -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message