From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 29 19:46:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1AD615642 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 19:46:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA06638; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 12:15:13 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA40375; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 12:15:12 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 12:15:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Patrick Seal Cc: notme , "Danny B." , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD = unix/linux ? Message-ID: <19990730121511.W93194@freebie.lemis.com> References: <001501bed49f$d6c0ca00$020a0a0a@danny> <37A10280.38F7F694@lvdi.net> <19990729220658.A73392@hyperhost.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990729220658.A73392@hyperhost.net>; from Patrick Seal on Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 10:06:58PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 29 July 1999 at 22:06:58 -0400, Patrick Seal wrote: > 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. And while we're on the subject, it's BSD/OS, made by BSDI. I wish I knew where this habit of spelling it with a lower case i (BSDi) came from, but it's wrong. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message