Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:05:30 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: kpneal@pobox.com Cc: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minder Message-ID: <37356.128.135.70.2.1413471930.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20141016144638.GA45276@neutralgood.org> References: <543ED1D6.3000500@saveouraquifer.org> <543ED8C1.9090508@gmail.com> <543EF466.3070908@saveouraquifer.org> <543F0B26.40805@a1poweruser.com> <20141016144638.GA45276@neutralgood.org>
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On Thu, October 16, 2014 9:46 am, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 08:02:46AM +0800, Fbsd8 wrote: >> BSD IS NOT A FAVOR OF LINUX. FreeBSD and Linux are complete independent >> re-writes of Unix. The other BSD's are forks of FreeBSD. > > False. > > NetBSD was derived from 386BSD which itself was derived from UCB's Net/2 > release. But the Net/2 code was replaced with 4.4BSD-Lite code since -Lite > was unencumbered. Replacing the Net/2 code was a process. > > FreeBSD 1 was I believe derived from that same 386BSD codebase. But > FreeBSD > 2.0 was totally redone with 4.4BSD-Lite. The replacement was done as a > sharp break. > > Also, don't confuse 386BSD with BSD/386 which was a commercial system. > > The remaining BSD's were forks of one of those original two. But claiming > that they were all forks of FreeBSD is simply incorrect. > Thanks for clarification. But even explained it not as exactly as you do, he still corrected gross misunderstanding, as originally someone claimed that FreeBSD is a derivative of Linux. Which was grossly wrong. I was tempted to correct that person myself by mentioning that Linux grew up into "UNIX-like" system much later than FreeBSD emerged as a sort of successor of UNIX. (and now the trend looks to me like Linux is more and more becoming M$ Windows-like ;-). Anyway he beated me to correct this gross incorrectness, but thanks to adding these details! Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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