Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:17:39 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Lanny Baron <beef@cybertouch.org>, Stewart Heckenberg <youdaman@reincarnate.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD Message-ID: <19980819221739.44266@nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980819141003.2845A-100000@beef.cybertouch.org>; from Lanny Baron on Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 02:13:05PM -0400 References: <35DB134F.14A17C@reincarnate.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980819141003.2845A-100000@beef.cybertouch.org>
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On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 02:13:05PM -0400, Lanny Baron wrote: > I kinda wonder why you call FreeBSD a clone. But as I understand it, > FreeBSD is the free version of Berkely Unix. For legal reasons, FreeBSD (and Linux for that matter) can't claim that they *are* 'Unix'. 'Unix-like' is OK. Some people substitute the word 'clone' without meaning it as a derogatory term. FreeBSD is directly descended from 4.3BSD Net/2, everything prior to 2.0 was based on this code (via 386BSD). Version 2.0 (the first version I ever used) included code merged from 4.4BSD lite (which was a version of 'real' 4.4BSD without some critical files included, Novell (I think) thought that not including these files would slow down the free efforts. /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree on your system should be informative. In addition, Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org in mail, he posts to Usenet with the mail address dont@spam.me) who was involved (as an engineer, at Novell, when the lawsuit started (I think, I could be *very* wrong about him working at Novell)) occasionally posts a fair amount it. A DejaNews search <URL:http://www.dejanews.com/>; for ~g comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc ~a dont@spam.me lawsuit should probably bring up a bunch of postings from him, and you can piece it all together from there. Bottom line -- FreeBSD is not Unix. However, it's a damn site close to it, and together with NetBSD, OpenBSD, and BSDi has (IMHO) a strong moral, if not legal, claim to the title. N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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