From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 24 14:56:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70EF237B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:56:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from lindt.urgle.com (lindt.urgle.com [80.177.40.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AE7D43EB2 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:56:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@urgle.com) Received: from mike by lindt.urgle.com with local (Exim 4.10) id 18cCkK-0006IA-00; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:56:24 +0000 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:56:24 +0000 From: Mike Bristow To: Bill Studenmund Cc: arief_mulya , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tech@openbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux Message-ID: <20030124225624.GB23410@lindt.urgle.com> Reply-To: mike@urgle.com References: <3E30C2A5.5040502@bna.telkomsel.co.id> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ Reply-To set to me: This is probably off topic for all of the lists: all of the ones I read, anyway. ] On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:03:53AM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote: > > 2. How does it differ? What are the technical reasoning > > behind the decisions? > > They differ in most technical areas. Mainly as the *BSD kernels were > derived from 4.4-Lite, and Linux was derived, I believe, from Minux. Point of order: Linux was a cleanroom implementation, using IIRC Minux as the host OS until such time as it became self-hosting. -- You can't do maths without e -- David Walters To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message