From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 21:20:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A700E37B69B for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:19:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=gateway.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14KZNb-000Du6-00; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:19:00 +0000 Received: from buffy.raggedclown.net (btvs.demon.nl [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.raggedclown.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24BBA5DB7; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 06:17:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.0 (i386), from userid 500) id 9D38112C5A; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 06:10:01 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 06:10:01 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: David Kelly Cc: bastill@sa.apana.org.au, "Julien P." , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs linux Message-ID: <20010122061001.H1639@raggedclown.net> References: <200101220254.f0M2swl07989@grumpy.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101220254.f0M2swl07989@grumpy.dyndns.org>; from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:54:58PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:54:58PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > Brian Astill writes: > > Basically, FreeBSD is Unix in everything but name (its a copyright problem that > > prevents the use of the name Unix). > > Its a trademark problem, not quite the same thing as copyright. > > As for the difference between FreeBSD and Linux, the shortest way I know > how to say it is that I believe FreeBSD is more mature, knows where Unix > has been and where Unix is going. Most all of The Big Mistakes have > already been tried in *BSD and corrected. Many of which Linux has had to > rediscover for itself. > This is probably true... BSD has a looooooooooooong history... > The majority of Linux users are also Windows users and wear > Microsoft-colored glasses no matter how much they badmouth Microsoft. > They continue to build their new land with a Microsoft tint. This may I don't understand what is meant by this... ? Both FreeBSD and Linux are amazing achievements..in my view. > not be a bad thing, only time will tell. > > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > > > > 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