Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:57:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Alejandro Ramirez <ales@megared.net.mx> Cc: Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBsd again Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909061555390.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <00f501bef8ae$81447da0$fca3f9cf@megared.net.mx>
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On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Alejandro Ramirez wrote: > Hi, > > Well all the development in the Linux arena its around the kernel, and > the complete system its just the kernel with a lot of binaries attached, it > doesnt even recognize an ufs slice, to upgrade the system you just have to > upgrade the kernel and thats all (or something like that) correct me if Im > wrong. You are wrong, many system utilities need to be recompiled at times to cope with kernel structure changes in Linux, it's not always a "drop new kernel in" operation. > Unlike FreeBSD its a complete OS, each version has a lot of changes and > improvements in userland binaries, system binaries File Systems, Kernel, > TCP/IP Stack, and all the things that came along with the system. Yup. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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