Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:44:35 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: brian william wolter <bwolter@thesadmachine.org>, Jack Morgan <j-morgan@gol.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBsd (reposted) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011272142060.26872-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <20001128020456.A1701@buffy.local>
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> BSD became the basis for certain versions of UNIX, most notably > Sunos..aka these days Solaris, and Ultrix (DEC Unix of it's day, > the most awful Unix system ever let loose). Well, not exactly with sunos... sunos before like 4.x or something of that nature was BSD based... their current implementation is SysV-ish with some of the BSD left in. > Most others got based loosely or otherwise on licensed code > from AT&T, and there was always obeissance to the Regents of > the University of California" in the copyright notices. > This is the basis for HP-UX, Dynix/PTX, SCO etc etc... > > So ... without the BSD kernel stuff and other things UNIX would > not be the system it is today. > > As to which one to learn. Well you are going to have to pay for > HP-UX as well as something to run on it on, so I would discount > that. Besides which RISC chips are on their downward spiral back > to the niche they were created for orginally (high-end grpahics) > and will continue to be used by Silicon Graphics I suppose for > making block busting movies. > > Since RISC has been imho the biggest single barrier to the > development of a common operating platform, this may not > be a loss. I suspect proprietary version of UNIX as such will > eventually die out. Possibly not Solaris for a long while, but > Sun have always been en enfant terrible, refusing to accept standards > except their own for example. > > BSD I gather contains no code from the orginal BSD Unix, but > my recent limited exposure to it has definitely given me the (old) > BSD impressions. I have no exposure to the other systems with > BSD in their name, so I will not comment. > > Linux contains no UNIX code, but if it looks like anything it > looks like System V. It is also, in my view, easier to learn > for a beginner (no flames please). It comes in a Heinz like variety > of distributions which differ in system setup and system management, > often quite dramatically. > > If you are looking for this as a possible career enhancing > factor, again choose Linux. > > On the other hand if you are simply keen to get exposure to systems > predicated on things other than Microsoft's .. well it does not > matter so much. See whether the posts on the various newsgroups > lean you one way or another... > > Good Luck > > Oh I forgot to mention AIX, IBM's Unix. There I've mentioned it. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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