From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 5:44:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe10.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.236.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B93237B718 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 05:44:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim_ekleberry@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 05:44:25 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [192.171.10.24] From: "Jim Ekleberry" To: Subject: Is FreeBSD UNIX or UNIX-like? Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 08:44:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C0A7AB.FA279C40" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Mar 2001 13:44:25.0877 (UTC) FILETIME=[E3D71450:01C0A7D5] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C0A7AB.FA279C40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A friend and I are debating as to whether FreeBSD is really BSD UNIX = ported for the x86 and Alpha platforms, or if it is UNIX-like similar to = Linux. Can someone please shed some light on this subject? Jim E. :-) ___________________________________________ =20 "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. = The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit = to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his = intelligence." - A. Einstein ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C0A7AB.FA279C40 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

A friend and I are debating as to = whether FreeBSD=20 is really BSD UNIX ported for the x86 and Alpha platforms, or if it is = UNIX-like=20 similar to Linux.

Can someone please shed some light on = this=20 subject?

Jim E. =20 :-)
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"Great = spirits=20 have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter = cannot=20 understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary = prejudices=20 but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." - A.=20 Einstein

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