Why don't you go to http://www.freebsd.com and have a look. I for one can say that certain things about FreeBSD are far more mature than Linux. I will give one point - all binaries in /bin and /sbin are statically linked, thus the system will always boot - even without the C libraries. To make such a distribution on Linux is problematic - because it is all based upon GNU source code - and some of the binaries from a single package reside in both /bin and /usr/bin for instance. So the same package would have to be compiled twice and only the relevent binaries copied. The licensing of the source code is much more open than the GPL - but many developers have a problem with the BSD license and many developers have a problem with the GPL. Also, the kernel is organized in a much different manner. I think the Linux kernel source is far easier to read and understand, but it is not as efficient as the BSD kernel. That is changing every day and the two are getting closer. Linux still supports more hardware - but the gap is nearly closed on that one (and out of the box - before kernel patches - FreeBSD may have Linux beat). If you have UltraDMA storage hardware, you can't beat FreeBSD. Linux does not have the ATA chipset support (with or without hendrick's patches) that FreeBSD has. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Opp" <cop7586 at hotmail.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 8:25 AM Subject: [TCLUG:22179] freeBSD > > > Got a quick question- > > I was at the store last night and I saw freeBSD software being sold. It > grabbed my attention so I picked up the box and looked it over. Too my > amazement it looks similiar to Linux. How is BSD different from Linux? From > what I read on the box it didn't look like much. I guess that there is > probably more than meets the eye with this, so could someone please > elaborate for me? I think it was version 4.4.x or something. It had KDE and > I think GNOME and many of the same tools and programs as the popular linux > distributions. > > > Thanks, > > Chris Opp > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org