From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 29 15:18:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10881 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:18:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10871 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:18:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-167.laker.net [208.0.233.67]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id SAA31871; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:17:35 -0500 Message-Id: <199810292317.SAA31871@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG." , "Rob Horstman" Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:16:04 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: BSD - Linux ?? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 13:34:40 -0800, Rob Horstman wrote: >Hi, Just wondering if you can settle a small bet we have going in the >office here. > >Is FREE BSD a "flavor" of LINUX or is it a completely seperate entity. > >If you can assist, it would be greatly appreciated. FreeBSD is NOT, NEVER WAS, NEVER WILL BE LINUX. It IS Berkely UNIX, in spite of anything any stupid lawyer could possibly say (as if they even understood the difference between right and wrong). LINUX is actually only a kernel with utilities coming from GNU. Linux certainly has it's place in the sun. Congrats to all those involved. But for me, having 22 yrs in this business, and several years and flavors of UNIX, FreeBSD is the ONLY choice. BTW, this sort of question should be addressed to -advocate, not -questions. Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message