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Originally posted by linuxbullet04
OK this is what i found out, i have like fedora, mandrake, redhat, knoppix, and what is the differnece in FREEBSD and LINUX isnt it the same i mean they both have the same unix base right and or are the kernals the same and are both upgradable to 2.6 well all i really need to know is what bsd is and what is the differnece. thx alot GO LINUX w00tw00tw00t
P.S. i have linux distros such as the one's i said^^^^^ and i have got to run windows games and installed video drivers from nvidia to ati easy as 123 is there a xfree86 or what in freebsd, because i straight up use winex3 from transgaming for all my gaming and some linux based games. i would really like a response thx
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No, they're not the same. They don't use the same kernel.
FreeBSD is an OS, Linux is basically just a kernel, the varying distros add their own implementations of varying things to make an OS out of the independant parts.
With that scenario in mind, Linux tends to have better support for new hardware, since it's more distributed in development, there are alot more people working on support for new things for it. The downside is compatibility is not always perfect, especially with varying hardware. Some things might work great on some systems, but not on others, due to distro-specific nuances.
FreeBSD on the other hand, and the rest of the BSDs as well, are more centralized. They're not just a kernel, there is an OS under there and it's got a small committee of people who determine its direction and what its kernel supports and doesn't support, and how.
FreeBSD is more of a complete package (OS, utilities, kernel) than Linux is, and the base system therefore is very easy to set up and use since it's very standardized. Linux on the other hand will vary from distro to distro. Some like Slackware are very BSD like in layout, some like Debian have very good package management systems like FreeBSD does, some like Gentoo have very poor package management systems in comparison
. Some are aimed at source installation and some have prepackaged binaries for everything. Some have graphical installers, some don't.
With FreeBSD you know what you're gonna get, so to speak.