From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 22 08:17:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA19135 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 08:17:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from PigStuy.dyn.ml.org (nyc-ny65-30.ix.netcom.com [209.109.224.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA19124 for ; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 08:17:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@pigstuy.dyn.ml.org) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by PigStuy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA00446; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 11:16:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spork@pigstuy.dyn.ml.org) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 11:16:29 -0500 (EST) From: Spike Gronim Reply-To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com To: "M. Kuster" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dowloading Linux In-Reply-To: <000d01be160c$93f86220$de9d01c8@kuster> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, M. Kuster wrote: > Dear FreeBSD provider, > > I want to download and install linux on my system. But which one of the files > do I have to download. Is it possible to download the whole bsd in a > the form of a zip file? > First, please limit your line length to 70-80 characters, it makes it hard to read for some of us when it is longer. Second, FreeBSD is NOT Linux. FreeBSD is directly derived from 4.4BSD, while Linux is an implementation of POSIX that does not contain code from 4.4BSD. If you want FreeBSD, you should go to www.freebsd.org/handbook and read the sections on installing FreeBSD. -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com The majority only rules those who let them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message