From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 14 13:36:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4D0414FC7; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 13:36:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA29262; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:34:47 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990714142755.04765a40@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:34:44 -0600 To: Wes Peters From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD Cc: Lanny Baron , cjclark@home.com, Paul Anderson , ulairi@jps.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <378CD6E5.5662FBFD@softweyr.com> References: <199907030108.VAA24907@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <4.2.0.58.19990713151423.0447bc20@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19990713223011.044ee920@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:28 PM 7/14/99 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: >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. By that definition, Red Hat and Caldera would be the same distribution. > > > > >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, But it is not identical. It contains a different installation program and a different selection of third-party applications and utilities. This is the same distinction which exists between Linux distributions. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message