From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 1 8:41:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from spectre.honk.org (cr876208-a.flfrd1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.175.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03C0A37B9B6 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 08:41:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpoulin@honk.org) Received: from spectre.honk.org (mpoulin@spectre.honk.org [24.42.175.137]) by spectre.honk.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA04590; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 11:41:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 11:41:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Marty Poulin To: Bruno Jose Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: freebsd and linux ? In-Reply-To: <61CFC7D49104D41184DB000021D41C0B0BA67F@lci-mx.lcc.uff.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Bruno Jose wrote: > Hi,=20 >=20 >=20 > freebsd isn=B4t an linux? ok ?? No - FreeBSD is a "child" of BSD Unix (based on 4.4BSD-Lite code). Linux is a clone of Sys V Unix (Linux kernel was written entirely by Linus Torvalds) >=20 >=20 > Freebsd and Linux are compatible? Binaries or source? >=20 Yes - you can run Linux apps on FreeBSD, and many applications that are written for Linux are also written for FreeBSD. You can't run FreeBSD apps on Linux though. >=20 > Thank=B4s To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message