Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:46:46 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com> Cc: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>, arief_mulya <arief@bna.telkomsel.co.id>, 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: <20030126074646.GA1683@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20030124225624.GB23410@lindt.urgle.com> References: <3E30C2A5.5040502@bna.telkomsel.co.id> <Pine.NEB.4.33.0301240937270.18483-100000@vespasia.home-net.icnt.net> <20030124225624.GB23410@lindt.urgle.com>
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On 2003-01-24 22:56, Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com> wrote: > [ 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. It was "Minix", not Minux. And Linux started as a clean room implementation that was free from any Minix code, to avoid problems with the license of Minix. See the thread where Linus Torvalds announced the creation of Linux in comp.os.minix below (if the URL wraps, cut n' paste it to one line before checking it out): http://groups.google.com/groups?amp;th=d161e94858c4c0b9&rnum=6 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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