From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 25 23:47:17 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 D8E9137B401 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 23:47:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A752743ED8 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 23:47:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a130.otenet.gr [212.205.215.130]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0Q7kwBb026270; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:46:59 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0Q7kwZC001722; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:46:58 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0Q7kkaM001721; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:46:46 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:46:46 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Mike Bristow Cc: Bill Studenmund , 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: <20030126074646.GA1683@gothmog.gr> References: <3E30C2A5.5040502@bna.telkomsel.co.id> <20030124225624.GB23410@lindt.urgle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030124225624.GB23410@lindt.urgle.com> 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 On 2003-01-24 22:56, Mike Bristow 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