From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jul 14 14:47:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from hooked.net (korea-161.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.225.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7512C14FCB; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:47:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by hooked.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA01369; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:46:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:46:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Zepeda To: Brett Glass Cc: Wes Peters , Lanny Baron , cjclark@home.com, Paul Anderson , ulairi@jps.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990714142755.04765a40@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At 12:28 PM 7/14/99 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > >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. > > By that definition, Red Hat and Caldera would be the same distribution. You don't get the same programs, libraries or configuration files at all. For instance Caldera includes KDE, Qt, a Qt based installer and IIRC system configuration tool Caldera also has different tools for package management. RedHat does not; RedHat is also available for non x86 platforms. Hmm. Brett, your point wasn't valid, please don't start another useless flame war over something so unimportant. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message