From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 10 18:15:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10673 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:15:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from huron.nvl.virginia.edu (adrian@mail.nvl.Virginia.EDU [128.143.244.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA10651 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:15:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@nvl.virginia.edu) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by huron.nvl.virginia.edu (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with SMTP id VAA14321; Sun, 10 May 1998 21:15:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 21:15:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Open Systems Networking cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone read THIS one? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 May 1998, Open Systems Networking wrote: > > http://www.news.com/SpecialFeatures/0,5,18652,00.html > > The same is true with two other major > freeware projects, the Apache Web server > and the FreeBSD operating system, both > Unix-based. FreeBSD is Linux's younger > cousin and counts an estimated 500,000 > users, according to David Greenman, > principal architect on the core FreeBSD > team. > > Uhh YOUNGER cousin? BSD's heritage is FAR older than linux itself by some > 15+ years. And we are not related. We have a BSD family. Linux doesn't :) > Where did this guy get this information. And I thought david never gave > out figures? Yes, I just did and dashed of a piece of mail sumarizing the history of BSD and its relative age to v6 and the BSD sources. Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message