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From: joev@res.WPI.EDU (Joseph W. Vigneau)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
Date: 13 Oct 1994 05:54:31 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <37hcr1$8b6@pdq.coe.montana.edu>,
Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote:
>
>Having been an Ultrix administrator for some years, and run Linux for a
>very short time and now a FreeBSD developer, I can say with certainty
>that Linux is *nothing* like Ultrix when compared to FreeBSD. FreeBSD
>is orders of magnitude closer to Ultrix than Linux will ever be. Some
>would argue that it's not necessarily a good thing. :-)
Well, FreeBSD is closer to Ultrix (which is BSD based) by definition :)
Linux, which is SYSV based, also has a lot of BSDisms with it...
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