From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 10 19:11:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA06101 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 May 1997 19:11:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA06096 for ; Sat, 10 May 1997 19:11:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA26945; Sat, 10 May 1997 19:11:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 19:11:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Snob Art Genre To: Jeremy & Beth cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vs. Linux In-Reply-To: <337520D5.3F67@frontiernet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 10 May 1997, Jeremy & Beth wrote: > I'm currently a CS student and we've been using the Sun System V OS. My > quick question is - what would be the closest match to System V, > Slackware Linux or FreeBSD? Is there a difference in the applications? > or is it just a matter of the kernel? Linux is more similar to SVR4 than FreeBSD is. FreeBSD is a "pure" BSD, while Linux has some BSDisms and some SVR4isms. FreeBSD and Linux have different applications and kernels, though FreeBSD can run Linux apps. Really, though, neither Linux nor FreeBSD is much like Solaris, except insofar as they're all unix. (Linux isn't officially unix but if it walks like a duck . . .) > Thanks in advance, > jeremy > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."