Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 13:11:01 +0200 (MESZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: almog@esi.co.il (Shai Almog) Cc: lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The diffrence between Linux and FreeBSD Message-ID: <199607231111.AA214450261@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <9607231725.AA29820@esi.esi.co.il> from "Shai Almog" at Jul 23, 96 12:25:07 pm
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In his e-mail Shai Almog wrote: > At 10:02 23/07/96 +0200, you wrote: > >In his e-mail almog@esi.co.il wrote: > >> Hello > >> What is the diffrence between Linux and FreeBSD. > >> I know that they are diffrent in the core but i'm talking > >> about what does freeBSD offer that linux doesn't or can't > >> offer with some effort put in to it? > > > >The way you phrased your question, no intelligent answer can be given. > >Everything can do everything something else does if you put some effort > >into it. > > > >This way seen, they differ in philosophy driving their development. > > You are correct I did not explaine. > What need is there for a second freeware Unix? Second? There are, IIRC, three freware Unix clones: FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD... The split is lamentable but unavoidable (personal problems among developers, no monetary incentive to work together, other reasons;) the camps are still cooperating rather tightly and tracking each other. The curious fact that free unices have BSD in their names stems from the original Berkeley licensing terms which made this possible (you can find a copy of the license in every BSD source file; I can mail it to you if you don't have one handy.) Linux is not free. It is covered by the rather infamous GPL license which you can find almost everywhere (I can mail you a copy if you don't have one handy.) So it seems that I have already given you the answer you wanted: the BSD's and Linux differ in the philosophy of their respective developers; BSD developers want to create a product freely usable by everyone, for any purpose without strings attached--Linux fols are governed by the GNU Manifesto (all similarities with another Manifesto dating from 1848 seem to be intentional.) /Marino > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > Shai Almog ESI Expert Solutions International (Israel) > http://www.esi.co.il:8080/~almog/ > >
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