From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 14 13:27:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4AB414E5F; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 13:27:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA29154; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:26:57 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990714142422.0455d7e0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:26:48 -0600 To: David Scheidt From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD Cc: Wes Peters , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.0.58.19990713223011.044ee920@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:49 PM 7/13/99 -0500, David Scheidt wrote: >> Wrong. Their distribution is one CD-ROM. Walnut Creek's is four. > > > >So what? They have to avoid the Walnut Creek compilation copyright. >Big deal. Do they have a code base that isn't the FreeBSD CVS repository? >If they don't, they aren't a different distribution than FreeBSD, Inc's. > >David Scheidt That's not what makes a different distribution. As with Linux, the kernel and even the userland environment can be identical! All that's needed to distinguish a distribution is a different set (or subset) of utilities, a different setup program, different bundled application programs, and/or a different default configuration. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message