From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Sep 19 20:38:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from charlie.cns.iit.edu (charlie.cns.iit.edu [216.47.143.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C40E14CE2 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:38:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from maneben@charlie.cns.iit.edu) Received: from localhost (maneben@localhost) by charlie.cns.iit.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id WAA31435; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:40:03 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:40:02 -0500 (CDT) From: "Benjamin M. Manes" To: Allix Primus Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux Distribution or not ? In-Reply-To: <000801bf0315$79f10b60$5435fea9@user> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Allix Primus wrote: > Just wondering whats the difference between freebsd and linux > distributions, it uses the same things and even uses X , isn't it a > distribution of linux ? what seperates it from that ? > I think we need to get one of the boys upstairs to write a nice faq explaining the differences, and then post it on the newbies page. It would be nice just to point to xxx rather then have tis question be re-answered ever few weeks (since as newbies, they always think we'll answer everything wrong, and we might). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message