From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 15 07:23:24 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA17719 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:23:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA17710 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:23:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id QAA06309; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:22:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:22:57 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: Itzik Zitiyat cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id HAA17714 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Itzik Zitiyat wrote: > is FreeBSD is another linux version, like redhat? > if yes how compatible it is to unix and other standart linux OS? FreeBSD and Linux have different roots. FreeBSD evolved from BSD UNIX developed by the Computer Science Research Group of the University of Berkeley in California from about 1977 to 1994. The creation of Linux (starting about 1989) was inspired by Minix, a free UNIX clone developed by Andrew S Tanenbaum as a small UNIX-like OS for educational purposes. BSD UNIX has had a very strong influence on the whole UNIX world (including Linux). Thus FreeBSD has many things in common with other UNIX OS, probably more than Linux has. To my mind Slackware Linux comes most close to FreeBSD from all the Linux systems. Regards // // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _______ // Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ // Datenverarbeitung mbH GÖttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / // Am Faßberg, D-37077 GÖttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----- // http://www.freebsd.org // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message