From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 29 22:11:42 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 E205D14DF4 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 22:11:38 -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 BAA18148; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 01:10:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by foobar.foobar.yi.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7B7B4138419; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 01:09:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 01:09:59 -0400 From: Patrick Seal To: Greg Lehey Cc: notme , "Danny B." , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD = unix/linux ? Message-ID: <19990730010959.A83656@hyperhost.net> References: <001501bed49f$d6c0ca00$020a0a0a@danny> <37A10280.38F7F694@lvdi.net> <19990729220658.A73392@hyperhost.net> <19990730121511.W93194@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19990730121511.W93194@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 12:15:12PM +0930 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 I copied that directly from a diagram from "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operation System". Well, except for the lowercase part. I guess the book's wrong too. Unless BSD/OS used to be called BSDI?? Here's a uname -a on a BSD/OS machine: BSD/OS hyperhost.net 3.0 BSDI BSD/OS 3.0 Virtual Kernel #0: Fri Aug 15 03:41:58 PST 1997 jradford@gargamel.lightrealm.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/VIRTUAL i386 Not my machine, but I have an account. On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 12:15:12PM +0930i, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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 > -- ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ 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