I'm kinda new and I'm still learning. Exactly what is the difference between Linux and FreeBSD? thanx.

Well I'm sure it's in a FAQ somewhere, or just a Googling away, but I'll bite .

FreeBSD is based on BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), which was developed (funnily enough) at the University of California at Berkeley.

Linux (the kernel) was created by Linus Torvalds, and improved upon by him and hundreds or thousands of hackers across the net, between '91 or so up til the present. Distributions started to appear quickly (Linux the kernel + GNU free software utilities).

The timeline for *nix history in general is very complicated; check this site.

So BSD is kinda like Linux Then?

They are separate entities, neither strictly based on the other. BSD has been in development since the latter half of the 70s.

They are similar in that they are both implementations of a Unix-like kernel and the distributions based on each of BSD and Linux contain similar software. There are many implementation differences/similarities; I'm not the person to ask about that, though .

wow, unix has had a long rich history! I checked out the FreeBSD website looks like it can use KDE and Gnome. pretty cool.

*BSD is supposedly more stable than linux.

Wow, and from what i know, Linux is pretty stable, are there alot of programs for FreeBSD that are on linux?

This explained everything to me, even how M$ used BSD code! thanx for eveyone that posted to help.

http://www.distrowatch.com/dwres.php...view-freebsd#1

this chart is pretty good, also:
http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html

thanx alot, loved the chart, i think i might look more into FreeBSD