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!).

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.

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 :)

Billy - excellent post!  Thank You!


Nathan


On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Christofer C. Bell <christofer.c.bell@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 4:04 PM, David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Billy Crook <billycrook@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Michael,
>>>
>>> Be careful. All of the options include hundreds if not thousands of
>>> distributions.  I'd stick to evaluating the major ones if I were you.
>>> The three major ancestries of GNU+Linux are RedHat, Debian, and
>>> Slackware.
>>
>> I guess BSD doesn't get included because Gentoo isn't "major."
>
>
> I think it wasn't included because BSD, as I understand it, isn't
> Linux. And this is a  Linux user group.

It also isn't "major," and neither is Gentoo.

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Chris
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