From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 18:55:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-56-41.knology.net [24.214.56.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF78137B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:55:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0M2swl07989; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:54:58 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200101220254.f0M2swl07989@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au Cc: "Julien P." , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs linux In-Reply-To: Message from Brian Astill of "Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:56:42 +1030." <01012210050400.09119@PhD_1.testname.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:54:58 -0600 From: David Kelly Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Astill writes: > Basically, FreeBSD is Unix in everything but name (its a copyright problem that > prevents the use of the name Unix). Its a trademark problem, not quite the same thing as copyright. As for the difference between FreeBSD and Linux, the shortest way I know how to say it is that I believe FreeBSD is more mature, knows where Unix has been and where Unix is going. Most all of The Big Mistakes have already been tried in *BSD and corrected. Many of which Linux has had to rediscover for itself. The majority of Linux users are also Windows users and wear Microsoft-colored glasses no matter how much they badmouth Microsoft. They continue to build their new land with a Microsoft tint. This may not be a bad thing, only time will tell. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message