FreeBSD vs. RedHat
Todd Stephens
tbstep at tampabay.rr.com
Wed Oct 1 21:03:08 PDT 2003
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:09 pm, Daniel Hawton wrote:
> 4.4BSD Lite 2 is BSD.. which is from SysV.. heh That's what I said.
Let me give acknowledgment to Greg Lehey ahead of time for this as this
bit that follows comes from _The Complete FreeBSD_.
".. by the mid-80s, there were four different versions of UNIX: the
Research Version ... the Berkeley Software Distribution ... System V
... and XENIX, "
Sorry for omitting parts, but the overall idea of the passage remains
intact.
I believe, and someone correct me here, that BSD was a modification of
the /original/ UNIX code which existed prior to Sys V in 1983,
indicating that BSD and Sys V are different branches from the same
trunk. The history is rather confusing though, so I expect to be wrong
on this.
--
Todd Stephens
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,
while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato
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