Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:45:51 +0100
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help:why there is no distribution based on FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20041105134551.GE754@zaphod.nitro.dk>
In-Reply-To: <418B80E4.5050707@gldis.ca>
References:  <BAY24-F39xWY5pCxlIC0002b00b@hotmail.com> <418B80E4.5050707@gldis.ca>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--bi5JUZtvcfApsciF
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On 2004.11.05 08:32:20 -0500, Jeremy Faulkner wrote:

> 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?
> |   Thanks in advance.
>
> Linux is just a kernel. FreeBSD is an entire operating system.

That being said, there is actually one... Debian GNU/kFreeBSD [1],
which is a FreeBSD kernel with GNU userland.  I don't see the point,
but it's actually there.

[1] http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/

--=20
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team

--bi5JUZtvcfApsciF
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFBi4QPh9pcDSc1mlERAigcAJ9y3/xe7ElLn+r8vCVl3a0GKLKKTQCgnm7Y
jirRVUPNKty1aQ30V4o7QYk=
=6LLs
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--bi5JUZtvcfApsciF--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20041105134551.GE754>