From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 20:47:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (mail7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E75337B416 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 20:43:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.86.84]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Wed, 26 Jun 2002 23:42:19 -0400 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 06FE0BA05; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 23:42:07 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "Ken" , "a b" , Subject: Re: Linux or Unix? Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 23:42:06 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <000501c21d69$30bdc570$2cc8010a@palacasino.com> In-Reply-To: <000501c21d69$30bdc570$2cc8010a@palacasino.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020627034207.06FE0BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 26 June 2002 07:28 pm, Ken wrote: | FreeBSD is based on Unix. It is a direct descendant of the original AT&T | code. . . . and Linux is *NOT* based on Unix code in the same way, though it is based on Unix/Posix *behavior*. It is in a fact a direct descendent of minix. | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "a b" | To: | Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 2:40 PM | Subject: Linux or Unix? | | > Hi Admin, | > We have an unsolved problem. | > Is the FreeBSD operating system based on the Linux or the Unix kernel? I | > know that Linux is based on Unix, but does FreeBSD originate from Linux | > or Unix? | > | > Best regards | > | > Magne, Kenneth and Mark from Denmark | > | > _________________________________________________________________ | > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com | > | > | > 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 -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org If you smell the smoke you don't need to be told what you've got to do; Yet there's a certain breed, so very in-between, they'd rather take a vote. -- DEVO -- Here To Go To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message