Re: need help choosing appropriate BSD distro

On 19 Jun 2007 07:38:37 GMT, "Joachim Schipper"
<jdNoOtSPAMschipper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Those are not 'distros' [1], and if you want to post to more than one
group, you should crosspost, not multipost.

I haven't had the need to crosspost before, so I don't know how to do
that. Multiposting appeared to be a reasonable alternative. If I have
the need in the future to do this I'll look into how to do this. In
many other groups, crossposting is viewed as something you "should"
not do. But thanks for the tip.

As for the term "distros," someone in another newsgroup tipped me off
that many in this community don't like to refer to the different
branches of BSD as distros, even though that's what the D in BSD is
all about. Go figure!

I do realize that there is a difference between what a branch of BSD
is all about and what a Linux distro is about. Linux is a kernel and
the "distribution" is how everything is packaged.

With BSD, it's a complete OS.

I do find it a bit humorous that the people who started it all
referred to their implementation of a Unix-compatible OS as a
distribution (and still do, since they haven't changed the name of
it):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD

(Berkeley Software Distribution)
.

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