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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux v FreeBSD Which?
Date: 31 Mar 1997 14:41:56 GMT
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Dong Lin <donglin@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Linux is much easier to install.
Linux cannot be installed at all. It's just a kernel only. :-)
Linux _distributions_ can be installed easily, but the actual
installation tool depends on your distribution. The FreeBSD
installation tool should be mostly en par with most Linux
distributions. Certainly, details are different, and you might find
this or that less convenient, but globally stating it were hard to
install is undue.
> For example, Kermit and Zmodem
> are not on the FreeBSD cdrom,
But not since we don't like them, but since they cannot legally be
distributed on a CD-ROM. If other people do, they likely break the
original redistribution conditions.
C-Kermit 5A(190) is Copyright (C) 1985, 1994 by the
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
The C-Kermit software may not be, in whole or in part,
licensed or sold for profit as a software product itself,
nor may it be included in or distributed with commercial
products or otherwise distributed by commercial concerns
to their clients or customers without written permission
of the Office of Kermit Development and Distribution,
Columbia University. This copyright notice must not be
removed, altered, or obscured.
Selling a CD-ROM is generally considered a commercial distribution.
FreeBSD 2.2 should also contain the lrzsz Zmodem package, which is
completely freeware. lrzsz is derived from the last unrestricted
verison of Chuck Forsberg's rzsz package.
> Also, softwares on Linux appear to be in newer
> versions than on FreeBSD.
``Also, cars appear in newer versions than on the street.''
(To tell you a similar meaningless sentence. :)
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)