freebsd is a bsd. Bsd is another unix variant of which there are freebsd openbsd netbsd and bsdi. There might even be another that I do not know of. They use a lot of the same applications as found on most systems running gnu/linux. The kernels are very different however. On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Amanda Lee wrote: snip > freeBDS which I haven't seen referenced here and am assuming this is yet > another flavor of linux. -- Frank Carmickle phone: 412 761-9568 email: frankiec at dryrose.com