From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 15:38:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (unknown [150.101.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B3E337B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:38:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from PhD_1.testname.com.au (bra@dialup-4.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.133]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA13042; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:08:02 +1030 (CST) From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: "Julien P." , Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs linux Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:56:42 +1030 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29] Content-Type: text/plain References: <000701c083c0$10aff3a0$0200a8c0@mirkwood> In-Reply-To: <000701c083c0$10aff3a0$0200a8c0@mirkwood> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01012210050400.09119@PhD_1.testname.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Julien P. wrote: > What are the differences between those two OS ? On your FreeBSD CD you should find a copy of 'The Complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey. This has a very good comparison chart. There are other fine sources. Basically, FreeBSD is Unix in everything but name (its a copyright problem that prevents the use of the name Unix). GNU/Linux is part of the Free Software Foundation's offering and its kernel is derived from Minix by (primarily) Linus Torvalds who is the Linux kernel coordinator. FreeBSD has a Linux emulator, so most Linux programs can run on FreeBSD. There are many Unix-style programs that will run on FreeBSD but NOT on Linux. There are many Linux distributions but only one FreeBSD. Which distro of GNU/Linux you prefer or whether you choose FreeBSD depends on your circumstances and your personal foibles. -- Regards, Brian ******************************************************** Dr Brian Astill Visiting Research Fellow Flinders University Institute of International Education Bus 8201 3480 FAX 8449 9199 bastill@sa.apana.org.au ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message