From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 22 14:23:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.tznet.com (smtp.tznet.com [206.31.5.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF0337B4C5 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 14:23:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darkangel.gothic.com ([205.216.111.77]) by smtp.tznet.com with ESMTP (IPAD 2.52/64) id 4726100; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:23:33 -0500 Received: by darkangel.gothic.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 631894E; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:31:04 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:31:04 -0500 From: Michael Urban To: Lethal4294@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux or unix? Message-ID: <20001022163104.A1454@tznet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Lethal4294@aol.com on Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 05:06:59PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, this is a little bit off topic for this list. You might try a Linux mailing list. But.. Yes, Linux is like UNIX. Unlike FreeBSD however, Linux is a clone that was written from scratch so really has no legal or historical right to be called UNIX. In general however, Linux looks, and behaves like UNIX, but has it's own little quirks like all other versions of UNIX. On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 05:06:59PM -0400, Lethal4294@aol.com wrote: > This may sound daft but is linux anything like unix? what is the difference > if any? > > > 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