From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 14 11:31:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 009B615434; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:31:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id LAA21698; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:29:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id LAA05628; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:28:44 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA19264; Wed, 14 Jul 99 11:28:52 PDT Message-Id: <378CD6E5.5662FBFD@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:28:53 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: Lanny Baron , cjclark@home.com, Paul Anderson , ulairi@jps.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD References: <199907030108.VAA24907@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <4.2.0.58.19990713151423.0447bc20@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19990713223011.044ee920@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > > At 04:44 PM 7/13/99 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > >Sure. They're another company that sells THE FreeBSD distribution on CD-ROM. > > Wrong. Their distribution is one CD-ROM. Walnut Creek's is four. But it's still FreeBSD. Regardless of whether you buy the WC 4 disk set or the CheapBytes 1 disk set, you get the same kernel, the same configuration files, the same libraries, the same operating system. > > >So does Pacific HiTech in Japan. Did you have a point to make? > > Yes, but clearly it was too subtle for some folks to catch. No, you thought you had a point to make, but you were mistaken. The Cheap- Bytes FreeBSD disc is roughly equivalent to disc 1 from Walnut Creek, and they both contain the same OS. Unlike Caldera, Red Hat, Debian, Slackware, SuSE, Turbo, etc., which are different operating systems that all use the Linux kernel. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message