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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4405 comp.os.linux.misc:31542 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!ames!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!news!kstailey From: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Summary: BSD vs. LINUX Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Date: 12 Dec 1994 18:15:34 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 11 Distribution: world Message-ID: <KSTAILEY.94Dec12131534@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1994Dec11.210101.5836@light-house.uucp> NNTP-Posting-Host: leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: las@light-house.uucp's message of Sun, 11 Dec 1994 21:01:01 GMT BSD is an old research UN*X that became (legally) available for free recently (more recently than LINUX's arrival). BSD's Computer Science Research Group (CSRG) is no longer developing it, but other sites are still producing new technologies using BSD (CMU's LITES for instance). LINUX is a hobbyist UN*X that has been available for free longer than BSD has. From this perspective it is the incumbant system and therefor more popular. Since hobbyists are not interested (or equipped?) to perform advanced research all(?) of LINUX's technologies are imitative.