Right, BSD isn't linux, it's a major distribution of Unix. Gentoo however, is linux (It uses a slackware base I believe, but it is influenced heavily by BSD. It still runs the linux kernel though!).<br><br>However, unless you're interested in learning how everything works together, or you absolutely HAVE to have every ounce of performance your machine can push out, I don't see a reason to discuss Gentoo with a *nix newbie. Likewise, there is absolutely no room in the corporate environment for Gentoo...it takes too much time to get a stable system running, and the corporate environment doesn't need what it offers.<br>
<br>Before you flame me, know, I do run Gentoo on one of my servers at home, and I absolutely love it. It just isn't suited for the discussion at hand :)<br><br>Billy - excellent post! Thank You!<br><br><br>Nathan<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Christofer C. Bell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christofer.c.bell@gmail.com">christofer.c.bell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Arthur Pemberton <<a href="mailto:pemboa@gmail.com">pemboa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 4:04 PM, David Nicol <<a href="mailto:davidnicol@gmail.com">davidnicol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Billy Crook <<a href="mailto:billycrook@gmail.com">billycrook@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Michael,<br>
>>><br>
>>> Be careful. All of the options include hundreds if not thousands of<br>
>>> distributions. I'd stick to evaluating the major ones if I were you.<br>
>>> The three major ancestries of GNU+Linux are RedHat, Debian, and<br>
>>> Slackware.<br>
>><br>
>> I guess BSD doesn't get included because Gentoo isn't "major."<br>
><br>
><br>
> I think it wasn't included because BSD, as I understand it, isn't<br>
> Linux. And this is a Linux user group.<br>
<br>
</div>It also isn't "major," and neither is Gentoo.<br>
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