From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 12 08:23:36 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B99106564A for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:23:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unix.hacker@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.59.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A9318FC12 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:23:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.28]) by QMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id w8NV1h0030cZkys5B8PdBl; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:23:37 +0000 Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([68.43.224.227]) by omta10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id w8Pc1h00J4uzdYs3W8PcgB; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:23:37 +0000 Message-ID: <4EBE2D07.8080005@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:23:35 -0500 From: Allen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: What are the technical differences between Linux and BSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:23:36 -0000 On 10/31/2011 3:50 PM, Zantgo wrote: > I mean, like BSD is based on the original UNIX, and Linux on System > V, Um, no.... BSD was a version of Unix that was done at Berkeley. They were one of the first Universities to REALLY get work done with Unix adding things that we all now take for granted (Vi, TCP/IP, more) and basically came out with this "BSD" which was in very high demand and VERY popular. It, in my mind, was better than the AT&T Unix. Linux uses System V style Init. It's BASED on SunOS. Linus Torvalds said that when he started working on Linux, his reason for doing so, was that he wanted to run on HIS computer, the same thing he had been using at the University, which, was SunOS. He said his early inspiration for Linux was SunOS. Just because it uses System V init doesn't mean it's actually based on it... >Linux should include new technologies, or why not?, Is that Linux > includes more new hardware, but I mean as is "within "management > technologies, security, etc. .. > > PD: I know that BSD is more secure, stable and fast, although in > relation to performance, ports are not very fast. I'm going to go ahead and agree with the other replies on here and say you should REALLY get some History books on Unix / Linux / BSD, and read them. I'd recommend "Just for Fun", "A Quarter Century of Unix" and also the DVD "25 Years of Berkeley Unix", and a few others mentioned already.