From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Mar 23 13:16: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F5F37B71B for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:15:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA49F; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:21:03 -0800 Message-ID: <3ABBBD01.713C030@acuson.com> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:15:45 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "C. McArdle" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD & GNU References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > What is the connection / disconnection between GNU and BSD UNIX? To my knowledge, there were only three projects (not counting spurs and variants) to create free Unix-like operating systems from scratch, GNU, BSD and Linux. Only BSD finished their task. GNU is almost done, but has not finished the key component, the kernel. Linux took the easy route and used components from both the GNU and BSD projects. GNU sees no need to complete the integration of their system, since they say Linux is really GNU in disguise. And the need to complete Linux disappeared once the components from the other projects were integrated. BSD tends to be "pure" in its approach to Unix. GNU seems to be obsessed with adding extensions to Unix, though they try to keep compatibility with the basic Unix command set. Linux does whatever strikes the distributors' fancy. The philosophies behind the three are the greatest differences. BSD just wants to create a quality work. GNU wants to "free" people from the evils of proprietary software. Linux wants to have fun hacking on code. In actuality, all three projects have used pieces from the other two. But beyond that, all three have used components for other non-OS projects, like XFree86, Perl, Apache, etc. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message