From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 18:21:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2155D16A41F for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:21:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sequethin@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 957F743D62 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:21:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sequethin@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t12so1097819wxc for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:21:24 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:sent-from-pda:user-agent; b=N1+AoMA2GqhEB58DDgvn4XRECitEFAc4MpeWY4yxq+Mhm6+8KEONTdjQuxn7FNyzQPo2t//OUIrxTapHy7edClwXaJxOUwlWzVo4OdP68UNDUJN4TEUBjm26URDm1wf+FWTezTVQQZZpMTJ7ABvOOyttl4fjJUWSaQ7b5ykvysI= Received: by 10.70.82.7 with SMTP id f7mr9829978wxb; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:21:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ( [65.211.29.191]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h10sm9810967wxd.2006.01.17.10.21.22; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:21:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:21:20 -0500 From: Mike Hernandez To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060117182120.GE14213@dementia.beyondnormal.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <927ad6550601170958u58ecd702ve6788b454f8f7acd@mail.gmail.com> <20060117180725.43990.qmail@web33310.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060117180725.43990.qmail@web33310.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sent-From-PDA: Yes User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:21:27 -0000 On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:07:25AM -0800, Danial Thom wrote: > > > --- "FlashWebHost.com" > wrote: > > > Linux is just kernel only. > > > > FreeBSD is complete operating system. > > > > FreeBSD and Linux have almost similar > > performance. There are much > > already discussed about it, a google search > > will give you more info. > > Nothing personal, but thats about the dumbest and > most wrong (wrongest???) answer that one could > possibly contemplate. > > DT > Actually he's not too far off, Linux really is a kernel, it's not so much of an operating system until you get all the GNU tools to go along with it. Luckily there are distributions that do that for you, or you can go the LFS or DIY route I suppose and download everything yourself. As far as similar performance... well performance has a lot to do with the hardware and applications in question, but I must say there are no major differences between running kde on linux and kde on freebsd on my home pc. So although the answer is incomplete for sure, I certainly wouldn't say that it's the dumbest and/or "wrongest" reply that could have been given. Of course if the OP would have just googled this could have all been avoided to begin with ;) Mike