Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 03:09:33 EST From: mike johnson <ahze@slaughter.necro.edu> To: brian william wolter <bwolter@thesadmachine.org>, Jack Morgan <j-morgan@gol.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBsd (reposted) Message-ID: <20001127080933.0F1981DE4@baddog.yi.org>
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what about tru64? in the 'family tree' of unix its the only thing that doesnt branch off On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, brian william wolter wrote: > Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 02:15:39 -0600 (CST) > To: Jack Morgan <j-morgan@gol.com> > From: brian william wolter <bwolter@thesadmachine.org> > Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBsd (reposted) > > well, 4.4 BSD is (i believe) a direct descendant of System V and the > closest you'll find to actual UNIX today. Linux is based largely in > Posix. You'll remember that BSD was originally developed using the AT&T > code and while it contains no AT&T code today, linux never did. > > > peace, > brian > > > t h e S a d M a c h i n e . o r g > > On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jack Morgan wrote: > > > Howdy, > > > > I posted a questions about a week ago. At that time, I installed > > FreeBSD, but was stuggling. I got pretty frustrated and reinstalled > > Linux thus about 400 emails got reformatted :-( > > > > I have been using Debian for over a year, and Linux off and on for 3. I > > have to admin a few BSD boxes as well as Linux boxes so wanted to learn > > more about FreeBSD. I have got my hands the Handbook, and will try > again > > after redaing more. > > > > 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? > > > > Thanks, > > -- > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Jack Morgan System Administrator, Exodus Communications > > Phone/Fax: (03) 5334-1770/5334-1771 > > Email: j-morgan@gol.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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