[KLUG Members] Difference

[Greg Mason]

you could consider Darwin/Mac OS X a distribution of BSD.

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

>>Hi!
>>What is a difference between Linux,FreeBSD,NetBSD,OpenBSD licence ? 
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>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.
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>>Why there is no distribution of  FreeBSD,NetBSD,OpenBSD like RedHat,mandrake?
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>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).
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