From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 21:18:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BE0737B402 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:18:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from rac3.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.143]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA18128; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:18:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac3.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA07978; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:18:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA07974; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:18:09 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac3.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:18:09 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: SpaZ Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-VS-Linux---Some Venting from Linux's side! In-Reply-To: <00a401c08731$c1b6bde0$03001aac@bsdguys.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG well, I didn't mean for it to be a flame or a holy war, I just wanted to set the facts straight. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, SpaZ wrote: > ARGGGGGGGHHHAAAAA......... > > I guess I can't stop this flame/holy war between bsd-linux linux-windows > bsd-windows......but I can put in my buck twenty. > > Use what is good for you. aka "To each his own" > > I use NT, 2000,. and FreeBSD. I have my reasons, why? No of your biz, 2000 > for my laptop for stability and compatibility at all my clients, NT for > small office servers, and FreeBSD for my web hosting company. > > Why I don't use Linux.....not since college......tooo many changes.... > > > Spaz > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kenneth Wayne Culver > To: Tim McMillen > Cc: ; > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 8:20 PM > Subject: Re: FreeBSD-VS-Linux---Some Venting from Linux's side! > > > > They didn't reall cut 'n paste.. but used the same ideas... so you can't > > really exactly just grep through the code, but Linus himself has said that > > that's where the ideas come from. > > > > > > ================================================================= > > | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | > > | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | > > | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | > > | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | > > | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| > > ================================================================= > > > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Tim McMillen wrote: > > > > > > > > You know, everybody says this, that Linux uses the FreeBSD tcp/ip stack > > > and other things, but no one seems to verify it. Has anyone actually > > > looked into the code? It shouldn't be very hard to grep through the > > > code and see. If they don't mention the copyright and they use the > > > code, then that's illegal, and I can't picture them doing that, they're > > > quite serious about their GPL, and it's implications. > > > If they didn't actually use any of the code, but instead rewrote > > > similiar stuff, then they didn't really steal it. At that point that's > > > no different from any other code that gets shared between the projects. > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > On Thursday January 25, 2001 16:45, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > > > i am on your side just wnated to know how much of FreeBSD > > > > > networking code is in 2.4? > > > > > > > > I'm not sure, but I think the BSD networking stuff has been in linux > > > > since 2.2, I think 2.4 got a lot of FreeBSD's VM stuff. I don't know > > > > how much of either is there, but I remember reading about it, and > > > > I've worked in both kernels before and have seen some pretty > > > > non-superficial similarities in both. > > > > > > > > Ken > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message