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Date:      Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:56:24 +0000
From:      Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com>
To:        Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
Cc:        arief_mulya <arief@bna.telkomsel.co.id>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tech@openbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org
Subject:   Re: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux
Message-ID:  <20030124225624.GB23410@lindt.urgle.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0301240937270.18483-100000@vespasia.home-net.icnt.net>
References:  <3E30C2A5.5040502@bna.telkomsel.co.id> <Pine.NEB.4.33.0301240937270.18483-100000@vespasia.home-net.icnt.net>

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  all of the ones I read, anyway. ]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:03:53AM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > 2. How does it differ? What are the technical reasoning
> > behind the decisions?
> 
> They differ in most technical areas. Mainly as the *BSD kernels were
> derived from 4.4-Lite, and Linux was derived, I believe, from Minux. 

Point of order:  Linux was a cleanroom implementation, using IIRC Minux
as the host OS until such time as it became self-hosting. 

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