From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 26 22:37: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from echunga.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B9C37B4FE for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 22:36:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAR6VJE30299; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:01:19 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:01:19 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: David Kelly Cc: Jack Morgan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBsd (reposted) Message-ID: <20001127170119.B30134@echunga.lemis.com> References: <200011270418.eAR4IJS43135@grumpy.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011270418.eAR4IJS43135@grumpy.dyndns.org>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:18:19PM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 26 November 2000 at 22:18:19 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > Jack Morgan writes: >> Now, my question: How different are they? I beleive Linux is based on >> System V and FreeBSd is based on 4.4 BSD, so what does that mean? > > Linux is not based on anything, but most try to keep Linux in adherence > to POSIX standards. Linux does have some foundations in Minix, but I'm not sure how far they go. I think things like the Linux device driver interface may be related to Minix. They're definitely very different from the System V and BSD interface. > But the fact most all Linux distributions use a Sys-V-like init, one > could say Linux most closely resembles Sys-V. I've heard this before, but I think it's bogus. Most users don't even know what init is. > FreeBSD *is* BSD. The real thing. Not a clone. Correct. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message