Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:25:20 -0500 (EST) From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> To: mupi@mknet.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Kernel Message-ID: <200101291725.f0THPKl480042@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
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Mike Porter writes:
> On Sunday 28 January 2001 15:43, Keith Woodman wrote:
>> I think there is some confusion here. In FreeBSD the kernel and the OS
>> version are not seperate as they are in the diluted confusion of Linux
...
> This isn't entirely a fair comparison, becuase you are comparing a
> "distribution" version to a "complete system" version. Since the
> term "Linux" itself properly refers only to the kernel,
RMS would have you believe that. He also insists the OS name is "GNU".
The development mailing list is "linux-kernel" though, which would be
redundant if "Linux" only referred to the kernel. (the mailing list
existed long before RMS decided to tag along)
> FreeBSD isn't available in that method, there is only one "distribution"
> if you want to put it in those terms. Becuase of that, it is fair to
> say that if you are running FreeBSD version 4.2, then that is your
> kernel version. And just like with linux, if you upgrade the kernel
> (say, to -stable) it is possible to break the system.
No, to put it in Linux terms correctly:
FreeBSD 4.2 is a BSD distribution using the 4.4 kernel.
The distribution-specific changes just happen to be rather large
and numerous. This is because UCB hasn't released a new kernel in
a very long time and isn't about to do so.
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