From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 6 14:19:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (n2000039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69C3B15564 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:19:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA26523; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 23:20:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <37D42FA5.53C428B@nisser.com> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 23:18:29 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Knebel Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBsd again References: <19990906162318.M1422@rknebel.uplink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Knebel wrote: > > Hi, > Thanks for everyone's opinion on my previous about FreeBSd. > I have one more if you would indulge me. > I have heard people say that Linux is just a kernel but freebsd is an entire operating System. > Could anyone explain this better. In order to run Linux you'll need nearly all of the GNU utils. Linux, the kernel, does not have ls, cat, rm, whatever. FreeBSD OTOH has. Roelof -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Het Slakke Huis op http://nisser.com/Slak/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. Telekabel home http://nisser.com/ Beveiligingsverwijzingen http://nisser.com/links.htm Telekabel lijn monitor http://nisser.com/~roelof/logs_std.shtml Check huidige beveiliging: https://www.fortify.net/cgi-bin/ssl ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message