Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:18:09 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: SpaZ <spaz@bsdguys.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-VS-Linux---Some Venting from Linux's side! Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101260017450.7894-100000@rac3.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <00a401c08731$c1b6bde0$03001aac@bsdguys.org>
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well, I didn't mean for it to be a flame or a holy war, I just wanted to set the facts straight. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, SpaZ wrote: > ARGGGGGGGHHHAAAAA......... > > I guess I can't stop this flame/holy war between bsd-linux linux-windows > bsd-windows......but I can put in my buck twenty. > > Use what is good for you. aka "To each his own" > > I use NT, 2000,. and FreeBSD. I have my reasons, why? No of your biz, 2000 > for my laptop for stability and compatibility at all my clients, NT for > small office servers, and FreeBSD for my web hosting company. > > Why I don't use Linux.....not since college......tooo many changes.... > > > Spaz > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> > To: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> > Cc: <GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 8:20 PM > Subject: Re: FreeBSD-VS-Linux---Some Venting from Linux's side! > > > > They didn't reall cut 'n paste.. but used the same ideas... so you can't > > really exactly just grep through the code, but Linus himself has said that > > that's where the ideas come from. > > > > > > ================================================================= > > | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | > > | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | > > | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | > > | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | > > | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| > > ================================================================= > > > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Tim McMillen wrote: > > > > > > > > You know, everybody says this, that Linux uses the FreeBSD tcp/ip stack > > > and other things, but no one seems to verify it. Has anyone actually > > > looked into the code? It shouldn't be very hard to grep through the > > > code and see. If they don't mention the copyright and they use the > > > code, then that's illegal, and I can't picture them doing that, they're > > > quite serious about their GPL, and it's implications. > > > If they didn't actually use any of the code, but instead rewrote > > > similiar stuff, then they didn't really steal it. At that point that's > > > no different from any other code that gets shared between the projects. > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > On Thursday January 25, 2001 16:45, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > > > i am on your side just wnated to know how much of FreeBSD > > > > > networking code is in 2.4? > > > > > > > > I'm not sure, but I think the BSD networking stuff has been in linux > > > > since 2.2, I think 2.4 got a lot of FreeBSD's VM stuff. I don't know > > > > how much of either is there, but I remember reading about it, and > > > > I've worked in both kernels before and have seen some pretty > > > > non-superficial similarities in both. > > > > > > > > Ken > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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