Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:23:37 -0400 From: Todd Stephens <tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat Message-ID: <200310012323.37963.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3F7B96CE.2020702@hawton.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0310012040460.811-100000@cdm01.deedsmiscentral.net> <1065064046.14liecjf9d9c@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <3F7B96CE.2020702@hawton.org>
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On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:09 pm, Daniel Hawton wrote: > 4.4BSD Lite 2 is BSD.. which is from SysV.. heh That's what I said. Let me give acknowledgment to Greg Lehey ahead of time for this as this bit that follows comes from _The Complete FreeBSD_. ".. by the mid-80s, there were four different versions of UNIX: the Research Version ... the Berkeley Software Distribution ... System V ... and XENIX, " Sorry for omitting parts, but the overall idea of the passage remains intact. I believe, and someone correct me here, that BSD was a modification of the /original/ UNIX code which existed prior to Sys V in 1983, indicating that BSD and Sys V are different branches from the same trunk. The history is rather confusing though, so I expect to be wrong on this. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato
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