On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 12:12 -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 6/13/05, Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > > > On 6/7/05, Nosehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Hello FreeBSD :D > > >> A question and I'm out: I have an old pc, running on a 300 MHz Intel > > >> Celeron CPU, on an Intel MOBO. Now, what platform should I choose from > > >> your site: Alpha, i386? And also for and AMD Athlon XP 2600+ with an > > >> Asus A7V600-X, what distribution? > > >> Thanks! > > >> > > >> > > > > > > FreeBSD is an operating system, Linux is a distribution. > > > > Nope. Linux is an operating system kernel, as is FreeBSD. The latter > > also happens to be the name of the operating environment. > > > > SuSE Linux, RedHat Linux or Debian GNU/Linux is distributions. > > When I say "operating system" I mean a "complete system". What good is > a kernel if you have no way to make it do something? > > Windows = Kernel + GUI + System tools + User tools > OS-X = Kernel + GUI + System tools + User tools > FreeBSD = Kernel + CLI + System tools + User tools > > With Windows, OS-X, FreeBSD, and the other BSDs you don't update this > tool or that shell or even the kernel when it becomes out of date, > you update the whole system. The OS is managed by one party. > > Linux = Kernel > SuSE, RedHat, Debian, etc. = Linux + 3rd party shell + 3rd party > system tools + 3rd party user tools > > Those are distributions that "bundle" the Linux Kernel with other peoples > stuff. > > You could call GNU/Linux an operating system but I wouldn't, not after > being introduced to an engineered system like FreeBSD. FreeBSD is to > Linux as Gold is to Lead, there very similar but one is worthless.
On the contrary, lead has great worth if, for example, you need radiation shielding. A point of note is that the third party shells packaged with Linux (such as bash or zsh) are the same third party tools packaged with FreeBSD. I would be inclined to say FreeBSD actually uses a higher percentage of third party configuration tools than RedHat or SuSE, who tend to write their own in order to be more user friendly. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I don't know of many instances where FreeBSD provides custom (graphical) configuration utilities. -- Christopher Black Chief Security Engineer Secure Crossing 22750 Woodward Suite 304 - Ferndale, MI 48220 Tel (800) 761-4299 | Direct (248) 658-6120 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.securecrossing.com
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