Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:02:20 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: <GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com> Cc: <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD versus Linux Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101221158230.21238-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <74.7108f2c.279d64f2@aol.com>
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com wrote: > 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 scratc= h > (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 anyo= ne > who knows there history will tell you without BSD's contributions UNIX ma= y > have died out, > BSD has the sweetest network stack in the biz, hell BSD damn near invente= d > 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 stateme= nt I agree. The influence of BSD on modern UNIX has been very strong. BSD and System V UNIX have been a model for Linus Thorvalds. Regards Konrad Heuer Personal Bookmarks: Gesellschaft f=FCr wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH G=D6ttingen http://www.freebsd.org Am Fa=DFberg, D-37077 G=D6ttingen http://www.daemonnews.o= rg Deutschland (Germany) kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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