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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:26:58 EST
From:      GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com
To:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD versus Linux
Message-ID:  <74.7108f2c.279d64f2@aol.com>

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In a message dated 1/22/01 3:41:36 AM Central Standard Time, 
cliff@raggedclown.net writes:

<< Linux is a UNIX lookalike operating system. It was written from scratch
 (more or less) as a project at a University on or around 1990. It has
 since grown way beyond that. Having said that from a user perspective
 it is as much like "real" Unix as anything else with that claim. >>

Sir i must disagree with you there:
as you said BSD was around allmost at the beggining of UNIX, in fact anyone 
who knows there history will tell you without BSD's contributions UNIX may 
have died out,    
BSD has the sweetest network stack in the biz, hell BSD damn near invented 
TCP/IP, BSD is a direct decendant of AT&T UNIX, and is not called UNIX 
because of copyright issues.

Linux was developed totally from the ground up. It contains not one stich of 
UNIX code nor did Linus have any around to base it on. Saying it has just as 
much a right to be called UNIX as FreeBSD is simply an inaccurate statement


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