Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:47:16 -0500 From: "Brett Cates" <bcates513@hotmail.com> To: "BrettC@campbellhealth.netsnaelq"@techst02.technion.ac.il, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i have a question! Message-ID: <F232fOAugxyQRQN738V00010abf@hotmail.com>
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>From: snaelq@techst02.technion.ac.il >[mailto:snaelq@techst02.technion.ac.il] >Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:17 AM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: i have a question! > > >since i'm new to all these stuff, my question is what's the difference >between >your FreeBSD & Linux ??! To paraphrase Mr. Lehey in 'The Complete FreeBSD'... FreeBSD is a direct descendent of the original UNIX, though it does not contain any residual AT&T code. It is a complete operating system maintained by a central group of software developers. There is only one distribution of FreeBSD. Linux is a clone of UNIX and never contained any AT&T code. It is a kernel, personally maintained by Linus Torvalds. The non-kernel programs suppied with Linux are part of a disribution, such as Slackware, Red Hat, and Debian. Hope this helps... Brett >p.s. i'm an Electrical Eng. student, & have to learn the UNIX OS, so i'm >looking for the most similar/close OS to UNIX. > > > >THNX >-- >Qudsi N. >Electircal Eng. Dep. - Technion, Haifa Israel. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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