From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jan 22 2:27:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from imo-r19.mx.aol.com (imo-r19.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 803FF37B698 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:27:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com by imo-r19.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v29.5.) id n.74.7108f2c (4183) for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:26:59 -0500 (EST) From: GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com Message-ID: <74.7108f2c.279d64f2@aol.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:26:58 EST Subject: Re: FreeBSD versus Linux To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 59 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message