Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:30:09 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Cc: wen heping <wenheping2004@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Help:why there is no distribution based on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200411051030.10193.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY24-F39xWY5pCxlIC0002b00b@hotmail.com> References: <BAY24-F39xWY5pCxlIC0002b00b@hotmail.com>
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On Friday 05 November 2004 02:11 am, 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. As others have said, Linux is just a kernel, and the various dists of that take the kernel and add various parts of the GNU userland to it. The BSD's OTOH are a complete operating system including kernel and userland. There are other distributions of FreeBSD however. They are usually for more specialized tasks. Examples include FreeSBIE (boots into a FreeBSD environment off of a CD), WarBSD (like WarLinux), m0n0wall, tinyBSD, picoBSD (only really for 3.x and 4.x), etc. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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