From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 24 18:58:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tt01.tech-trans.com (unknown [202.135.11.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD24414E4A for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:57:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cckok00@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk) Received: from SMTP ([210.184.43.2]) by tt01.tech-trans.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with SMTP id AAA21FA; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:49:04 +0800 Received: from stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk ([202.135.11.169]) by 210.184.43.2 (Norton AntiVirus for Internet Email Gateways 1.0) ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:54:13 0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3772E519.4DEF98B@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:10:34 +0800 From: peter kok X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oscar Bonilla Cc: aaron , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux References: <000701bebe67$24c742a0$c58cbacc@default> <19990624115947.F428@fisicc-ufm.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oscar Bonilla wrote:> > > Yes. FreeBSD is based on BSD, the Unix Distribution from the University of > California at Berkeley. In that sense, FreeBSD is UNIX. > > Linux is and independent implementation of a Unix-like Operating System. > Depending on the distribution, Linux "feels" more like a System V Unix than > a BSD Unix. > > Most of the books on Unix (which don't say System V explicitly) talk about > BSD Unix since that flavor of Unix was the most popular in universities. > Hello all which is better? Regards Peter > > Hope that helps, > > -Oscar > > -- > For PGP Public Key: finger obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message