From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 24 16:55:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA03758 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:55:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA03751 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:55:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul3.u.washington.edu (root@saul3.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.1]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id QAA15572; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:55:33 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul3.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id QAA28281; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:55:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:55:08 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: mamer10 cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux & FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <000701be17fd$3e355580$8fe4a1d1@ns> 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 Tue, 24 Nov 1998, mamer10 wrote: >What is the difference between Linux and FreeBSD? FreeBSD is a complete operating system with a single distribution. Linux is a unix kernel that is released with a varying set of distributions. The functional difference is as slight as the differences between any two flavors of unix. One thing to note, programs that run on Linux can also run on FreeBSD but not the other way around. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message