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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!nntp.crl.com!ecf2.puc.edu!news5.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 09:44:45 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 36 Message-ID: <32F3810D.237C228A@FreeBSD.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c155c$p6u@raven.eva.net> <5c19pg$rf6@lynx.dac.neu.edu> <5c39sk$ddl@troma.rv.tis.com> <5c8jlm$50u@cynic.portal.ca> <m23evrulla.fsf@desk.crynwr.com> <5cdqos$e6k@camel1.mindspring.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.970201040446.16129A-100000@ux8.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: "Kueh, Anthony" <kueh@students.uiuc.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:155514 comp.os.linux.networking:66894 comp.os.linux.setup:94907 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5826 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2181 Kueh, Anthony wrote: > Not nearly as fragmented as the various BSD's. All Linux distributions > contain the same free code. (Redhat and Caldera are exceptions, where > they do include some licensed code, but you're still able to install a And where do you think the great majority of BSD code comes from? Outer space? No, it comes from the BSD Lite2 tape and it comes from the Free Software Foundation (we use GNU tools too, ya know). We're using the SAME code, and NetBSD and OpenBSD are almost identical in every major respect. Yes, each camp has its own tweaks, but counted line for line, it's greatly the same. FreeBSD only takes on the i386 architecture for now, and so doesn't have a lot of the cross-platform support code that the others do (for us, it would only be unnecessary bloat right now) but it's also largely the same code. We (the 3 groups) also read one another's PR databases and share MANY of the same bug fixes. I don't necessarily see that degree of cross-pollination happening in the Linux camps, for example. Does Debian benefit from Red Hat's customer bug reports? How about Slackware? > view point. For example, BSDI is created to more on the level of other > major Unixes (to provide a reliable and stable network server). Where as > FreeBSD is to provide a desktop workstation type OS. Excuse me? FreeBSD is targetted primarily at being a NETWORK SERVER OS, and have you ever heard of a little site called ftp.cdrom.com, for example? Or a little company called Yahoo? I'm sorry, but this is another classic piece of totally uninformed, shoot-from-the-hip misinformation posted by someone who hasn't got the faintest clue about what he's talking about. If you're going to talk on the net, Tony, then do your bloody homework first. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project