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[Valeri Galtsev]

On Thu, October 16, 2014 9:46 am, kpneal at 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

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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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