From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 19:25:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from laxmls02.socal.rr.com (laxmls02.socal.rr.com [24.30.163.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F233437B424 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:25:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sc-24-160-53-139.socal.rr.com (sc-24-160-53-139.socal.rr.com [24.160.53.139]) by laxmls02.socal.rr.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e7O2O3T12128; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:24:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:25:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Hansen To: m bram Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about freeBSD vs Unix In-Reply-To: <20000824005854.19757.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Newbie Reply: My understanding of the history-of-things is that 'UNIX' is a term which is generally applied to OS's that are descendants of AT&T(?) UNIX. The Trademark of the name, currently, apparently, is SCO's, though this might be wrong. But since FreeBSD is a descendant of 4.4BSD-Lite(?), it *is* UNIX. Linux, conversely, is not UNIX. It is a unix-clone/unix-like OS. I'm not saying that makes it bad :) It is just a completely seperate codebase which was written to be like UNIX, it does not trace its lineage down the UNIX line. Then again, I could be generally dumb :) On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, m bram wrote: > > Hi. A quick question. Does freeBSD basically emulate a UNIX system. In other words, if I knew how to work under a unix administrator, would I therefore be totally comfortable with a freeBSD system. ARe there majore differences? Thanks for taking the time to read this & respond. > > Yours truly, > > Mitchell Bram > > > > --------------------------------- > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message