Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:28:53 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Lanny Baron <lnb@freedom.cybertouch.org>, cjclark@home.com, Paul Anderson <paul@geeky1.ebtech.net>, ulairi@jps.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD Message-ID: <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>
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Brett Glass wrote:
>
> At 04:44 PM 7/13/99 -0600, Wes Peters wrote:
>
> >Sure. They're another company that sells THE FreeBSD distribution on CD-ROM.
>
> Wrong. Their distribution is one CD-ROM. Walnut Creek's is four.
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.
>
> >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, and
they both contain the same OS. Unlike Caldera, Red Hat, Debian, Slackware,
SuSE, Turbo, etc., which are different operating systems that all use the
Linux kernel.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com
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