also, gentoo has a freebsd/gentoo project. its neat.
How does FreeBSD differ to Linux? Why would I use it over Linux?
FreeBSD supports both BSD and Linux binaries natively.
There has been a lot of arguments between the freebsd group and linux group over security, speed, optimization, stability and such. And in the end it’s just up to what you’d prefer. They don’t differ THAT much from eachother.
Kubuntu can suck it, I hate it x[ Makes me want to rape a crab.
Any particular reason you chose a crab? Or do u just like all of the sharp edges?
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FreeBSD supports both BSD and Linux binaries natively.
There has been a lot of arguments between the freebsd group and linux group over security, speed, optimization, stability and such. And in the end it’s just up to what you’d prefer. They don’t differ THAT much from eachother.
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they might look the same on the outside, but FreeBSD is NOT linux. bsd doesnt support linux natively. you have to download some compat libs and such. anyway, linux is pretty much just a kernel, and a linux distro is a kernel with a bunch of packages. FreeBSD, on the other hand, is a whole operating system. not just a flavor of BSD. for example, there is no gcc for freebsd. FreeBSD has its own compiler, which is a modified version of gcc, built in to the operating system.
[QUOTE=hosler;63128]they might look the same on the outside, but FreeBSD is NOT linux. bsd doesnt support linux natively. you have to download some compat libs and such. anyway, linux is pretty much just a kernel, and a linux distro is a kernel with a bunch of packages. FreeBSD, on the other hand, is a whole operating system. not just a flavor of BSD. for example, there is no gcc for freebsd. FreeBSD has its own compiler, which is a modified version of gcc, built in to the operating system.[/QUOTE]
I know linux is not a OS or a distro in itself. Gnu/Linux is on another hand as near you can come the definition of an OS, as the GNU Project says.
Didn’t know that FreeBSD wasn’t just a flavor of BSD though. Even though you need compat LIBS, it still supports linux-binaries natively and doesn’t need to emulate linux in order to run the binaries.
What the Debian GNU/kfreebsd project does must be stripping freebsd down to its kernel and work from there(I just guess that the K in kfreebsd stands for that).
and then there was darwin
you cant really “strip down” freebsd. its called an operating system because some stuff is built into it. gentoo/freebsd is just freebsd with the gentoo config base. im assuming thats what debian/freebsd is like too.
[QUOTE=gllt;63135]and then there was darwin[/QUOTE]
which is based of freebsd
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[QUOTE=hosler;63153]you cant really “strip down” freebsd. its called an operating system because some stuff is built into it. gentoo/freebsd is just freebsd with the gentoo config base. im assuming thats what debian/freebsd is like too.[/QUOTE]
even with the linux kernel there is files that the kernel is dependant of, as with any other os. what defines the os is mainly it’s packaging, but the main part that is the system, could be used for anything.
Sidetracking:
There’s a project for FreeBSD that is working on a own version of the Darwin/OSX window manager. Might be fun to play with. 
i need to find this website that describes this stuff extremely well. im sure i have it book marked on one of my computers
wiki
no