[KLUG Members] Difference

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Hi!
> What is a difference between Linux,FreeBSD,NetBSD,OpenBSD licence ? 

Linux is GPL'd, it cannnot be closed.  AFAIK, none of the BSDs are under
GPL.  Their licenses are more restrictive.  But more importantly the
lead team on the BSD projects score higher on the arrogant scale,  so
they just can generate the same amount of momentum.

> Why there is no distribution of  FreeBSD,NetBSD,OpenBSD like RedHat,mandrake?

It took years for the installers, wizards, etc... to evolve to where
they are today on Linux.  BSDs have never made a similair effort,
hardware support is worse (for the reason sighted above).  And I diddled
with BSD awhile ago, generally like a bad commercial version of UNIX. 
It takes a long time to bring one up to a state of usability with a
robust tool kit.  BSD *HAD* some performance advantages under high load
or intense network traffic,  but with the release of 2.6 I fully expect
Linux to surpass them after which they will slowly die on the vine (if
they aren't already).