From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 18:55:23 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 A6C8C16A41F for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:55:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sequethin@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6411443D7D for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:55:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sequethin@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s9so1105901wxc for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:55:14 -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=Q8LWUWKKRcLsUxIDWqmg2SMhfx1/ldu3tEM7l3a/1Gtu02ENveTLSWMKThKXSZrDWFLEa1OcXu7ItkBPyqA+v7Vz4BL0nh1A14yp/ysMrfMd9uDnC17Usm8ci1EYHAsh8Ho9+7Ru79BcL8qi1C99tDCeq14/J4+AibGihgokBE8= Received: by 10.70.128.8 with SMTP id a8mr9505677wxd; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:55:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ( [65.211.29.191]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id i20sm9579370wxd.2006.01.17.10.55.13; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:55:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:55:10 -0500 From: Mike Hernandez To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060117185510.GF14213@dementia.beyondnormal.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060117182120.GE14213@dementia.beyondnormal.net> <20060117183824.45395.qmail@web33312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060117183824.45395.qmail@web33312.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 18:55:25 -0000 On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:38:24AM -0800, Danial Thom wrote: > > No, thats ridiculous. Linux has multiple > distributions that use the same kernel. The fact > that freebsd only has one distribution doesn't > make it any more complete. > "Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in a combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU, with Linux functioning as its kernel." http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html Google for "linux is a kernel". Doesn't make FreeBSD "better". Just means that when you say FreeBSD you refer to an entire OS and when you say Linux you refer to a kernel. Mike PS we all know the most important difference anyway: linux has a penguin. ;)