From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 26 22:21:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au (dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BFC414D39 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 22:21:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: by dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au (5.64+1.3.1+0.50/UA-5.19) id AA19926; Thu, 27 May 1999 14:51:15 +0930 From: Gregory Lewis Message-Id: <9905270521.AA19926@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Linux? In-Reply-To: <199905270404.VAA17204@ralf.serv.net> from Ken McGlothlen at "May 26, 99 09:04:53 pm" To: mcglk@serv.net (Ken McGlothlen) Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 14:51:15 +0930 (CST) Cc: Casero@aol.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 711 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > | Can you tell me what the difference is between free BSD and Linux? They are > | both based upon Unix, so what is the distinction? > > Actually, FreeBSD *is* Unix, adapted directly from the BSD 4.4 Lite version. > Linux is strictly a Unix emulator which has come into its own in the past two > years. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. Well, no, FreeBSD isn't Unix -- just asks the lawyers and judge in the USL lawsuit. Unix is actually a trademark, although both FreeBSD and Linux can be described as Unix-like. You are correct in terms of FreeBSD having a long "Unix" heritage. -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 3237 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message