Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 06:59:29 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: wen heping <wenheping2004@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help:why there is no distribution based on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20041106202929.GD24507@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY24-F39xWY5pCxlIC0002b00b@hotmail.com> References: <BAY24-F39xWY5pCxlIC0002b00b@hotmail.com>
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--vni90+aGYgRvsTuO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 5 November 2004 at 15:11:23 +0800, wen heping wrote: > There are so many Linux distribution such as RedHat SUSE Mandrake and > ....,while it seems that there is no other distribution based on FreeBSD. > Who can tell me why? Because it's not necessary? As others have said, Linux is a kernel. To make it useful, people had to package the rest of the system around it. The result is a "distribution" of the Linux kernel. FreeBSD has always been a complete system, so it doesn't need this kind of workaround. As somebody said, that doesn't stop people from trying. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --vni90+aGYgRvsTuO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBjTQpIubykFB6QiMRAlvGAJ0cdEPD7dWOd7dJQ54ohdXMU1bOJQCfaAMG a+EI8chVcn+VAfaSnuwJiFc= =cKCI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vni90+aGYgRvsTuO--
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