From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 21:03:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D162816A4B3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 21:03:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-02.tampabay.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.1.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5122543FE5 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 21:03:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbstep@tampabay.rr.com) Received: from 2416459hfc31.tampabay.rr.com (2416459hfc31.tampabay.rr.com [24.164.59.31])h923Rv8p017592 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:27:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Todd Stephens To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:23:37 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <1065064046.14liecjf9d9c@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <3F7B96CE.2020702@hawton.org> In-Reply-To: <3F7B96CE.2020702@hawton.org> X-Marks-The-Spot: Yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310012323.37963.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 04:03:08 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 04:03:08 -0000 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