From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 19:56:39 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 A2D4F16A4B3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 19:56:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fed1mtao06.cox.net (fed1mtao06.cox.net [68.6.19.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DB744011 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 19:56:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daniel@hawton.org) Received: from hawton.org ([68.99.178.107]) by fed1mtao06.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031002025633.UJHU14069.fed1mtao06.cox.net@hawton.org>; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 22:56:33 -0400 Message-ID: <3F7B93E5.6010209@hawton.org> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 19:56:37 -0700 From: Daniel Hawton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: SoloCDM , "FreeBSD-Questions (Request)" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 02:56:39 -0000 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