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Date:      Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:34:44 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        Lanny Baron <lnb@freedom.cybertouch.org>, cjclark@home.com, Paul Anderson <paul@geeky1.ebtech.net>, ulairi@jps.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19990714142755.04765a40@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <378CD6E5.5662FBFD@softweyr.com>
References:  <199907030108.VAA24907@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <4.2.0.58.19990713151423.0447bc20@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19990713223011.044ee920@localhost>

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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.

> > 
> > >So does Pacific HiTech in Japan.  Did you have a point to make?
> > 
> > Yes, but clearly it was too subtle for some folks to catch.
>
>No, you thought you had a point to make, but you were mistaken.  The Cheap-
>Bytes FreeBSD disc is roughly equivalent to disc 1 from Walnut Creek,

But it is not identical. It contains a different installation program and
a different selection of third-party applications and utilities. This is
the same distinction which exists between Linux distributions.

--Brett



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