Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:02:00 -0700 From: Mike Porter <mupi@mknet.org> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>, Keith Woodman <keith@cydonia.net> Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, Guillermo Leandro <guille@galileo.or.cr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Kernel Message-ID: <01012909020004.10681@mukappa.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20010128193349.B27559@northernbrewer.com> References: <00e701c0897a$dfc2e0c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101281435420.31402-100000@core.cydonia.net> <20010128193349.B27559@northernbrewer.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 28 January 2001 18:33, Christopher Farley wrote: > > The latest BSD operating systems are based on the 4.4BSD kernel. This > includes FreeBSD 4.2, NetBSD 1.5, and OpenBSD 2.8. So the OS version > the kernel version are really not the same. > > In comparison, the current Linux kernel is version 2.4. I don't think you are exactly right here. Just becuase the kernel is *based* on 4.4BSD (4.4BSDLIte if we want to get technical), doesn't mean that we are still running the same kernel. I would expect (though I admittedly haven't tried this) that dropping a 4.4BSD kernel into /kernel and attempting to boot would be a miserable failure and might possibly damage something in the process. So FreeBSD, like the other BSD's, is a "delta" version from a common ground. If I were to take Linux, and create a new version, and call it Mupix, would it be Mupix 1.0 (or more likely Mupix 0.2 for a while...) or would it not be Mupix 1.0 becuase it is "based on" Linux 2.4? (which is what you are saying) mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjp1k/gACgkQZ7GovTQbIm7S6wCdHukKgrtPeFwtJxv/+OYksK5y 2ykAnjYRWobFmh3NLZLa1i/f0t3Hb6tc =NJYf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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