FreeBSD vs. RedHat

Daniel Hawton daniel at hawton.org
Wed Oct 1 19:56:39 PDT 2003



SoloCDM wrote:
> Why do the ISOs seem to be three CDs of 600Mb each for RedHat compared
> to 1.5 CDs for FreeBSD?  I thought the files were larger with FreeBSD
> and its tarballs.
> 
> Does FreeBSD offer all the packages from A to Z in their CDs?

There are some packages which are only available through FTP.  Some 
packages aren't included on CDs because 3 cds is a little excessive.
> 
> Does FreeBSD come with an installation package?
> 
> Is FreeBSD Linux or UNIX?
> 
FreeBSD is a child of System V, so UNIX.  Linux was written from scratch 
by Linus with the GNU Public License, as opposed to FreeBSD which 
originated from BSD, which originated from System V.

-Daniel



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