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Date:      Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:10:34 +0800
From:      peter kok <cckok00@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk>
To:        Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu>
Cc:        aaron <merch@ptd.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Linux
Message-ID:  <3772E519.4DEF98B@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk>
References:  <000701bebe67$24c742a0$c58cbacc@default> <19990624115947.F428@fisicc-ufm.edu>

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Oscar Bonilla wrote:>

>
> Yes. FreeBSD is based on BSD, the Unix Distribution from the University of
> California at Berkeley. In that sense, FreeBSD is UNIX.
>
> Linux is and independent implementation of a Unix-like Operating System.
> Depending on the distribution, Linux "feels" more like a System V Unix than
> a BSD Unix.
>
> Most of the books on Unix (which don't say System V explicitly) talk about
> BSD Unix since that flavor of Unix was the most popular in universities.
>

Hello all

which is better?

Regards
Peter



>
> Hope that helps,
>
> -Oscar
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