There's not much they can show you on a box that would distinguish *nix and Unix-like OS's from each other. What they show you is pictures of a gui interface, and sure, BSD and Linux can use pretty much the same set. BSD has a different development team which emphasizes different things -- I'm sure others can give you details about its advantages over Linux. I don't think it's as popular, but as you've seen on this list, there are user groups, and probably a great community if you want to get into it. But you should decide how many different flavors of unix-like OSs you want to spend time on. Andy > I was at the store last night and I saw freeBSD software being sold. It > grabbed my attention so I picked up the box and looked it over. Too my > amazement it looks similiar to Linux. How is BSD different from Linux? From > what I read on the box it didn't look like much. I guess that there is > probably more than meets the eye with this, so could someone please > elaborate for me? I think it was version 4.4.x or something. It had KDE and > I think GNOME and many of the same tools and programs as the popular linux > distributions. > > > Thanks, > > Chris Opp > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org