Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 11:07:00 -0800 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> To: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Brad Tashenberg" <tash@airmail.net> Subject: Re: About FreeBSD Message-ID: <022101bf9756$7899f300$0200000a@danco>
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All your questions are answered in depth at http://www.freebsd.org, so I'll just summarize here: >I am leaning toward the Unix platform to allocate my interests. Is FreeBSD a >direct descendant of the BSD-Unix operating system? I ask because in the >description, it states it as a "Unix-like operating system." Yes, it is a direct descendant of 4.4BSD-Lite2. It's called "Unix-like" because "Unix" is a registered trademark... >Also, is the system fully multi-tasked? But, of course! Multi-tasking and multi-user... >The documentation stated that the FreeBSD OS is based with the X-Windows >system. When personally altering the system, is it possible to remove this >aspect from the system or will this have serious repercussions on the >overall system? X-Windows (XFree86) is available for FreeBSD, but it's not a part of it, per se. Not installing it won't cause any harm. >The last question I have would be is FreeBSD based on a Mach kernel? Or is >the kernel uniquely developed by FreeBSD developers themselves. The FreeBSD kernel is it's own, not the Mach kernel. --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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