out of curiousity...

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi,
Thank you for such an intelligent and well considered reply.  I shall read 
and educate myself.
Karen

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Karl Wilbur wrote:

> BSD is another "flavor" of UNIX. Linux is a "Unix variant" in that "GNU's
> Not Unix". Many of the actual programs are different. Though you interact
> with them similarly, there are slight differences...in many cases just
> enough to be annoying, but not hinder your ability to use them. The
> licensing is also very different, but IMO you would only need concern
> yourself with that if you are doing software development where you are
> re-using the source code of BSD-style licensed software (Wikipedia may help
> explain that in more detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_license)
>
> Wikipedia on BSD:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net>wrote:
>
>> And indeed I am just wondering.
>> How does freebs really differ from more  i do not know traditional Linux
>> distros like fedorah and debian?
>> I understand there is a difference, but have never really heard what it is
>> so to speak.
>> Karen
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