From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 11 11:19: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00B9437B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:19:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B85243E09 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:18:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g6BIIcl03005; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:18:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200207111818.g6BIIcl03005@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: i have a question! To: bcates513@hotmail.com (Brett Cates) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:18:38 -0400 (EDT) Cc: "BrettC@campbellhealth.netsnaelq"@techst02.technion.ac.il, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Brett Cates" at Jul 11, 2002 12:47:16 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > >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. Again, the key difference is that FreeBSD is a descendant of the original BSD family of UNIX and LINUX is a descendant of the sVr4 family of UNIX. Otherwise, what you say above is true. There are some write-ups out there that get in to more detail. Do some searching in archives and various online publications. ////jerry > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message