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.
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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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