From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 0:15:18 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 BBCE337B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 00:15:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAR89kO30866; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:39:46 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:39:24 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: brian william wolter Cc: Jack Morgan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBsd (reposted) Message-ID: <20001127183924.A30795@echunga.lemis.com> References: <3A21B462.2CCD1F08@gol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from bwolter@thesadmachine.org on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 02:15:39AM -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 Monday, 27 November 2000 at 2:15:39 -0600, brian william wolter wrote: > 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? > > well, 4.4 BSD is (i believe) a direct descendant of System V No, this is not correct. System V is closer to being a descendent of BSD. There was no feedback in the other direction. > and the closest you'll find to actual UNIX today. Well, no, that would be System V. > Linux is based largely in Posix. It conforms largely to Posix. So does System V. 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