From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 29 19:11: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperhost.net (ether.lightrealm.com [207.159.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1558214D8D for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 19:10:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from foobar.foobar.yi.org (p7.a8.du.radix.net [207.192.132.135]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA00307; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 22:10:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: by foobar.foobar.yi.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E94A3138419; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 22:06:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 22:06:58 -0400 From: Patrick Seal To: notme Cc: "Danny B." , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD = unix/linux ? Message-ID: <19990729220658.A73392@hyperhost.net> References: <001501bed49f$d6c0ca00$020a0a0a@danny> <37A10280.38F7F694@lvdi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <37A10280.38F7F694@lvdi.net>; from notme on Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 06:40:16PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD foobar.foobar.yi.org 3.2-STABLE FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message