Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 22:06:58 -0400 From: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> To: notme <notme@lvdi.net> Cc: "Danny B." <db@year2000.dk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD = unix/linux ? Message-ID: <19990729220658.A73392@hyperhost.net> In-Reply-To: <37A10280.38F7F694@lvdi.net>; from notme on Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 06:40:16PM -0700 References: <001501bed49f$d6c0ca00$020a0a0a@danny> <37A10280.38F7F694@lvdi.net>
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On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 06:40:16PM -0700i, notme wrote:
> Well, FreeBSD is a direct decendent from BSDi, which is written by those
>
No, that's wrong. FreeBSD is a decendent of 4.4BSD Lite-1. So is BSDi.
4.4BSD
Lite-1
|
/ \
/ \
FreeBSD 2.0 BSDi 2.0
But sometimes code is shared between the two time to time.
> geniouses at Berkeley years ago... In shorts, FreeBSD is a matured
> operating
> system. Linux, on the other hand, started around 8 (or something like
> that) years
> ago... or in another words... not quite as matured.
>
> For more information, go to:
>
> www.freebsd.org
> www.cdrom.com
> www.freebsdmall.com
>
> Frankie
>
> "Danny B." wrote:
>
> > I have been discussing alot with some people about FreeBSD and Linux
> > .... is it true freeBSD is compared with linux ? If so, is this really
> > the right diffnision? my argument was that freebsd should be clean
> > unix code unlike linux, wich is some "clone" ? i hope you can give me
> > correct answers to this question ... because it's bugging me im not
> > sure myself :-) regards,Danny Brandalwebmaster@year2000.dk
Yeah, Linux is sort of a clone. It was written from scratch to be UNIX-like,
while FreeBSD came directly out of UNIX.
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