Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 12:15:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> Cc: notme <notme@lvdi.net>, "Danny B." <db@year2000.dk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD = unix/linux ? Message-ID: <19990730121511.W93194@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990729220658.A73392@hyperhost.net>; from Patrick Seal on Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 10:06:58PM -0400 References: <001501bed49f$d6c0ca00$020a0a0a@danny> <37A10280.38F7F694@lvdi.net> <19990729220658.A73392@hyperhost.net>
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On Thursday, 29 July 1999 at 22:06:58 -0400, Patrick Seal wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 06:40:16PM -0700i, notme wrote: >> Well, FreeBSD is a direct decendent from BSDi, which is written by those >> > > No, that's wrong. FreeBSD is a decendent of 4.4BSD Lite-1. So is BSDi. > > 4.4BSD > Lite-1 >> > / \ > / \ > FreeBSD 2.0 BSDi 2.0 > > But sometimes code is shared between the two time to time. And while we're on the subject, it's BSD/OS, made by BSDI. I wish I knew where this habit of spelling it with a lower case i (BSDi) came from, but it's wrong. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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