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Date:      Sat, 20 Aug 2005 16:18:47 -0500
From:      Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
To:        "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSDLinux OS
Message-ID:  <ef10de9a050820141871305e20@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0508201159300.639@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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On 8/20/05, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Nikolas Britton wrote:
>=20
> > What defines Berkeley UNIX from SysV style UNIX and Linux?... What
> > makes BSD BSD and SysV SysV. We have the lineage from 4.4BSD-Lite but
> > what else?
>=20
> Licensing.
>=20
> Central development of libraries (like libc) and kernel and more (central
> per project).

That's one of the things I really like about the *BSDs. Could we just
take the 2.6 kernel and develop it as are own like we do with BIND and
Sendmail, fork it? and keep the FreeBSD libs, just port them to the
new kernel?

>=20
> Are there any free-to-use tools for testing various standards (tools and
> functions) and reporting?

?



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