From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 2 04:12:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A76716A4B3 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 04:12:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp08.wxs.nl (smtp08.wxs.nl [195.121.6.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9BFD43FEC for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 04:12:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp08.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HM400HGKMD0LJ@smtp08.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:55:48 +0200 (MEST) Received: from Intranet.lan (akruijff@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h92AvCQL026568;akruijff@Intranet.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Intranet.lan (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h92AvBM8026567; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:57:11 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:57:11 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <200310012323.37963.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> To: Todd Stephens Message-id: <20031002105711.GH16713@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: <1065064046.14liecjf9d9c@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <3F7B96CE.2020702@hawton.org> <200310012323.37963.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:12:45 -0000 On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:23:37PM -0400, Todd Stephens wrote: > On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:09 pm, Daniel Hawton wrote: > > > 4.4BSD Lite 2 is BSD.. which is from SysV.. heh That's what I said. > > Let me give acknowledgment to Greg Lehey ahead of time for this as this > bit that follows comes from _The Complete FreeBSD_. > > ".. by the mid-80s, there were four different versions of UNIX: the > Research Version ... the Berkeley Software Distribution ... System V > .. and XENIX, " > > Sorry for omitting parts, but the overall idea of the passage remains > intact. > > I believe, and someone correct me here, that BSD was a modification of > the /original/ UNIX code which existed prior to Sys V in 1983, > indicating that BSD and Sys V are different branches from the same > trunk. The history is rather confusing though, so I expect to be wrong > on this. I think this is pritty much correct. Berkeley original started with this because the original UNIX wasn't able to handle two HD on one contoler. This got the BSD history written down: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/