From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 19 15:32:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17550 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:32:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17542 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:32:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA22853; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:17:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Message-ID: <19980819221739.44266@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:17:39 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Lanny Baron , Stewart Heckenberg Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD References: <35DB134F.14A17C@reincarnate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Lanny Baron on Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 02:13:05PM -0400 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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