From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 23 11:55:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA24284 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 11:55:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA24277 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 11:55:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA10606; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 11:55:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 11:55:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Meszaros Dezso cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Big question about Linux versus FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <333440D7.1623@park1.fph.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Before I even get close to this, I ghighly suggest scanning the questions and hackers list archives at http://www.freebsd.org under "search" for responses. I want to answer this a bit better than others, but I certainly don't speak for FreeBSD in any way. On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Meszaros Dezso wrote: > I'm new in the Unix arena, and likely it will not change > untill I will not know why the core Linux developers/developer/ > not work together with FreeBSD core developers on > the SAME free operating system ?????????? 1. History. They were always separate efforts. 2. System types. FreeBSD is a port/derivative of the BSD system distributions, Linux is a more sysV-oriented, independent effor. 3. Development environment. Linux's k ernel is controlled by one person, and the rest of the ssytem is virtualy up for grabs. FreeBSD is more tightly controlled in terms of distribution. For the most part, it's philosophy. Somewhat same with the *BSD stuff, but the mail archives will reveal the whole story behind those divisions. Hope this helps. Again, I don't speak for FreeBSD in any way, nor do I wish to start any flamewars. Please ropute such responses to dev/null, thanks. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major