Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 18:46:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Royce <joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com>, Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>, notme@lvdi.net, db@year2000.dk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD = unix/linux ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907301841001.65127-100000@team7.cba> In-Reply-To: <19990731082227.E56925@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 30 July 1999 at 7:19:17 -0500, Paul T. Root wrote: > > In a previous message, Patrick Seal said: > >> On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 12:15:12PM +0930i, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> 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. > >> I copied that directly from a diagram from "The Design and Implementation of > >> the 4.4BSD Operation System". Well, except for the lowercase part. I guess > >> the book's wrong too. Unless BSD/OS used to be called BSDI?? > >> > >> Here's a uname -a on a BSD/OS machine: > >> BSD/OS hyperhost.net 3.0 BSDI BSD/OS 3.0 Virtual Kernel #0: Fri Aug 15 03:41:58 PST 1997 > >> jradford@gargamel.lightrealm.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/VIRTUAL i386 > >> > >> Not my machine, but I have an account. > > > > As I recall, I had version 1.0 from BSDI, it was called BSD/386. That was > > based on 4.3 Tahoe (Reno?). > > It was based on Net/2, like 386BSD and FreeBSD 1.x. > > > With the settlement of the suite, everyone switched to a base of > > 4.4BSD lite, which was unencumbered. > > Correct. > > > Also, BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distributions, as defined by > > USB. > > Do you mean UCB? > > > When BSDI started, the made it Berkeley Software Design, Inc. > > Correct. That's why this abbreviation BSDi makes so little sense. > > They also changed the name from BSD/386 to BSD/OS. The name change > coincided with release 2.0, which was when they moved to 4.4BSD-Lite, > but the background was that they wanted to port to other platforms, > and the /386 was inappropriate. > > Greg > -- You can find the BSD family tree at: ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree or if you have the sources installed then it's located at /usr/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree -Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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