From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 17:56:33 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8235AFEC for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:56:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp1.bway.net (smtp1.v6.bway.net [IPv6:2607:d300:1::27]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5CA60849 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:56:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gecko3.bs.net (host-216-220-115-58.dsl.bway.net [216.220.115.58]) (using SSLv3 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mfv@bway.net) by smtp1.bway.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7BEAB95876 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:56:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:56:20 -0400 From: mfv To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minder In-Reply-To: <37356.128.135.70.2.1413471930.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <543ED1D6.3000500@saveouraquifer.org> <543ED8C1.9090508@gmail.com> <543EF466.3070908@saveouraquifer.org> <543F0B26.40805@a1poweruser.com> <20141016144638.GA45276@neutralgood.org> <37356.128.135.70.2.1413471930.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:56:33 -0000 On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:05:30 -0500 (CDT) "Valeri Galtsev" wrote: > > On Thu, October 16, 2014 9:46 am, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 08:02:46AM +0800, Fbsd8 wrote: > >> BSD IS NOT A FAVOR OF LINUX. FreeBSD and Linux are complete > >> independent re-writes of Unix. The other BSD's are forks of > >> FreeBSD. > > > > False. > > > > NetBSD was derived from 386BSD which itself was derived from UCB's > > Net/2 release. But the Net/2 code was replaced with 4.4BSD-Lite > > code since -Lite was unencumbered. Replacing the Net/2 code was a > > process. > > > > FreeBSD 1 was I believe derived from that same 386BSD codebase. But > > FreeBSD > > 2.0 was totally redone with 4.4BSD-Lite. The replacement was done > > as a sharp break. > > > > Also, don't confuse 386BSD with BSD/386 which was a commercial > > system. > > > > The remaining BSD's were forks of one of those original two. But > > claiming that they were all forks of FreeBSD is simply incorrect. > > > > Thanks for clarification. But even explained it not as exactly as you > do, he still corrected gross misunderstanding, as originally someone > claimed that FreeBSD is a derivative of Linux. Which was grossly > wrong. I was tempted to correct that person myself by mentioning that > Linux grew up into "UNIX-like" system much later than FreeBSD emerged > as a sort of successor of UNIX. (and now the trend looks to me like > Linux is more and more becoming M$ Windows-like ;-). Anyway he beated > me to correct this gross incorrectness, but thanks to adding these > details! > > Valeri > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Valeri Galtsev > Sr System Administrator > Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics > Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics > University of Chicago > Phone: 773-702-4247 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" As far as the lineage of FreeBSD goes, I found this file to be quite interesting: /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree I assume it is common file on most, if not all, releases. Cheers ... __o _ \<,_ Marek (+)/ (+) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~