From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 8: 3:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mukappa.home.com (c576194-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com [24.20.97.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CF4B37B404 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 08:03:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mukappa.home.com (mjktux@localhost.home.com [127.0.0.1]) by mukappa.home.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f0TG20l27241; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:02:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from mupi@mknet.org) From: Mike Porter Reply-To: mupi@mknet.org To: Christopher Farley , Keith Woodman Subject: Re: FreeBSD Kernel Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:02:00 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Matthew Emmerton , Guillermo Leandro , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <00e701c0897a$dfc2e0c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20010128193349.B27559@northernbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: <20010128193349.B27559@northernbrewer.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01012909020004.10681@mukappa.home.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----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