From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 10 18:26:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA12913 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 18:26:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA12906 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 18:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA15266; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 18:26:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 18:26:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Stephan Brocoum cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970906125232.007d5510@pop.mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Stephan Brocoum wrote: > I was wondering if FreeBSD was actually a UNIX OS or just a UNIX-compatible > OS. Also, I don't know much about OSs but I was wondering what the > difference between UNIX and Linux is. Thanks. That depends on your definition of "UNIX" and "UNIX-compatible". :) FreeBSD is based on the Berkeley BSD distribution and not System V. FreeBSD vs. Linux? That is somewhat subjective, but the main difference in my eye is the distribution system -- FreeBSD has one, Linux has 20 (+/-) distinct distributions and therefore requires 20 support networks. FreeBSD has one distribution, one support network, and we know what system you're on when you say you're on version 2.2.2-RELEASE. Sorry if this was answered before -- I've been off the list for a bit. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo