From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 20:06:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044ED16A4B3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:06:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz (mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz [66.92.171.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18E0943FE5 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:06:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz) Received: by mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz (Postfix, from userid 80) id 98796209; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:07:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hachigo (hachigo [66.92.171.91]) by www.sweetdreamsracing.biz (Horde) with HTTP for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:07:26 -0400 Message-ID: <1065064046.14liecjf9d9c@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:07:26 -0400 From: Kenneth Culver To: Daniel Hawton References: <3F7B93E5.6010209@hawton.org> In-Reply-To: <3F7B93E5.6010209@hawton.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs cc: "FreeBSD-Questions \(Request\)" Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 03:06:28 -0000 Quoting Daniel Hawton : > > > SoloCDM wrote: > > Why do the ISOs seem to be three CDs of 600Mb each for RedHat compared > > to 1.5 CDs for FreeBSD? I thought the files were larger with FreeBSD > > and its tarballs. > > > > Does FreeBSD offer all the packages from A to Z in their CDs? > > There are some packages which are only available through FTP. Some > packages aren't included on CDs because 3 cds is a little excessive. > > > > Does FreeBSD come with an installation package? > > > > Is FreeBSD Linux or UNIX? > > > FreeBSD is a child of System V, so UNIX. Linux was written from scratch > by Linus with the GNU Public License, as opposed to FreeBSD which > originated from BSD, which originated from System V. > > -Daniel > Actually no, FreeBSD is a child of 4.4BSD Lite 2, which had all the AT&T SYSV stuff yanked out. Ken