In article <Xns997E6664EC29Cmtaylorxxlrimcom.DeleteThis@38.119.71.210>,
Mark Taylor <mtaylorx.DeleteThis@xlrim.com> writes:
> kp400sf <kp400sf.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in news:1185893380.093021.114570
> @z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com:
>
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> Linux is nothing more than the kernel and some support programs. Exactly
> where did you get your linux from? Various flavors of linux are 'packaged'
> into system like Red Hat, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, etc, etc... each of those
.................................... ^^^^^^^ FreeBSD is not a form
of Linux, which is, as you point out, based on Torvalds' kernel
development and - usually - GNU add-ons. FreeBSD, as well as Net-
and OpenBSD, are derived from work on the original AT&T UNIX code
at the CSRG at UCal Berkeley and the 4.4BSD source released from
there in the 90s. While there's some dispute over whether the
BSDs are UNIX or not, they probably come closer to traditional
UNIX than do any of the Linux systems available. My own feeling
is that the distinction is pointless and really has to do only
with the restrictions placed on the UNIX name by the current
owner. If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, sounds like
a duck, it probably IS a duck.
> already have a suite of programs pre installed or available from them in
> packages.
Base system FreeBSD does not come with Apache pre-installed. But
the ports and packages system simplifies the problem with a set
of well done makefiles if you want to "roll your own" or pre-built,
downloadable binary packages for those who have neither time nor
space nor inclination.
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> Otherwise you will have to obtain the source and compile it yourself. The
> package you choose may very well depend on which zip program you have. The
> 2.2.4.tar.gz will be the most likely one to use. gzip is almost always pre
> installed.
>
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