Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 13:29:24 -0400 From: Sean Cavanaugh <millenia2000@hotmail.com> To: <jerrymc@msu.edu>, <korikov.zk@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list Message-ID: <BAY126-W224CC92E2ADFCF02A45A8CA610@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <20090513165552.GA47498@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <mailman.0.1242226715.74750.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <717ed9590905130803x35a786b6uec0256cf855adf8f@mail.gmail.com> <20090513165552.GA47498@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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> Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:55:52 -0400 > From: jerrymc@msu.edu > To: korikov.zk@gmail.com > CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list > > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:33:44PM +0530, Shakil Khan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Can anyone let me know how can I download FreeBSD kernel source code. I am > > on Linux and am not able to download using CVS. Can someone point me exactly > > and also if some links are available where I can download tar ball of > > FreeBSD kernek source code. > > My suggestion would be to download the latest ISO and install it on > a machine with full source. Then you will have kernel and everything > to make a FreeBSD including the correct compilers and libraries. > > Kernel is really dealt with differently in FreeBSD than in Linux. > Although there is a kernel, it is intimately part of the whole > operating system, not a kernel which someone grabs makes up a separate > distribution with. > to piggy-back a little more, FreeBSD is an entire Operating System whereas Linux is just a Kernel used to run the GNU Operating system (The true nomenclature is GNU/Linux when refering to a Linux based OS). the GNU project is currently working on writing their own Kernel named Hurd based off the mach kernel.
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