From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 9:19:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F9837B4F9 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:19:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac5.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.145]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA27177; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:19:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA20123; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:19:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA20119; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:19:04 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac5.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:19:04 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: brian william wolter Cc: Jack Morgan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBsd (reposted) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > well, 4.4 BSD is (i believe) a direct descendant of System V and the > closest you'll find to actual UNIX today. Linux is based largely in > Posix. You'll remember that BSD was originally developed using the > AT&T code and while it contains no AT&T code today, linux never did. You have it backwards. System V integrates things from 4.4BSD and from the other branch of UNIX (System IV?). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message