From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 19 15:39:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom2-008.telepath.com [216.14.2.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92E4D37B440 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 15:39:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 8532 invoked by uid 100); 19 Aug 2000 22:38:21 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14751.3165.278088.36325@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 17:38:21 -0500 (CDT) To: Rick Knebel Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: How is freebsd doing In-Reply-To: <104565986@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Knebel writes: > I am considering installing freebsd on my computer instead of linux to run > my home network. How is Freebsd doing as far as use compared to linux. Is > it going to be around in 5 years? I just don,t want to get involved with it > if it is going to fade away. I'd be very surprised if FreeBSD isn't around in five years. Even so, Linux is a good hedge, as commercial Linux apps will run on FreeBSD. The only thing you'll have lost if FreeBSD does die is having to learn other ways of doing things - which is probably good for you in any case. > Also I have heard people say that Linux is a > kernel with a bunch of added programs to it but freebsd is a complete > operating system. > What does this mean? Doesn''t Freebsd have a kernel also? Yes, FreeBSD has a kernel. Linux has one group doing kernel development, and a bunch of groups developing distributions by adding programs to that kernel. FreeBSD has one group doing the kernel & distribution development. That's what they are referring to.