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It's literally in the name - BSD is "Berkeley software distribution". NetBSD (and Free, Open, Dragon Fly) ship kernels with original tooling and integrated 3rd party software, as a distribution.


Yes it is in the name, much like Federal Express. Not a distribution in a canonical meaning of the word. The idea of distributions is unique to Linux-based systems.


>The idea of distributions is unique to Linux-based systems.

That's a Linux-distribution, and please stop with that nonsense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_distribution

>>Examples of software distributions include BSD-based distros (such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonflyBSD) and Linux-based distros (such as openSUSE, Debian, and Fedora).


You should probably eventually try using one of BSD systems, you may like it.


If you look at my past comments (and maybe my Username) you could have seen that FreeBSD is my main-system (Server, Laptop and Workstation) since well over 17 years (the servers since that long).

And yes yes i not just like it but are deeply in love with it ;)

Let us stop here, no hard feeling's and have a good one, cheers.


> The idea of distributions is unique to Linux-based systems.

That's not quite true; there are illumos distros.




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