Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:54:37 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: <RavenShadowz@aol.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0103081538380.56960-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <64.bdcf631.27d8ec38@aol.com>
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On Thu, 8 Mar 2001 RavenShadowz@aol.com wrote: > Is BSD similar to LINUX? Right now I program in VB. Thank you. Many people would say: Linux is similar to FreeBSD. FreeBSD has been build from Berkeley UNIX which was the very important UNIX flavour developed at the University of California in Berkeley from about '76 to '95. Linux is a UNIX clone - an operating system designed to be similar to UNIX. In other words, FreeBSD is an older brother or sister of Linux. I don't want to say Linux is bad. But FreeBSD is in some sense more original than Linux. Of course there are a lot of similarities. System programming, for example, is mostly done in C or Perl; this holds for both systems. KDE and Gnome are available for both, too, if you look for interesting graphical user interfaces. But the command line interface is still important in FreeBSD and in Linux. Regards Konrad Heuer Personal Bookmarks: Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH GÖttingen http://www.freebsd.org Am Faßberg, D-37077 GÖttingen http://www.daemonnews.org Deutschland (Germany) kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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