From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 6 15:39:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5649814DE0 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:39:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA16235; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 08:57:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:57:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Alejandro Ramirez Cc: Rick Knebel , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBsd again In-Reply-To: <00f501bef8ae$81447da0$fca3f9cf@megared.net.mx> 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 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