From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 5 17:44:38 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA08409 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:44:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from send201.yahoomail.com (send201.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.68.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA08404 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:44:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from randall_senn@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19990206014343.14500.rocketmail@send201.yahoomail.com> Received: from [205.227.43.13] by send201.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 05 Feb 1999 17:43:43 PST Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:43:43 -0800 (PST) From: Randall Senn Subject: Unix vs unix-like and unix-type To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, webmaster@linux.org, www@openbsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Sirs: While looking at pages for other than NT operating systems, I see that Linux and Open BSD are claimed to be UNIX -like, or UNIX-type, while FreeBSD is claimed to be UNIX. It makes me wonder if Open BSD is indeed also UNIX-like? Is it? (And what makes it UNIX instead of UNIX-like anyway?) Snippets from web pages devoted to the operating systems follow. FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system for "PC-compatible" computers, developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts place emphasis on portability, standardization, correctness, security, and cryptography. OpenBSD supports binary emulation of most programs from SVR4 (Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, BSDI, SunOS, and HPUX. Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message