Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:47:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:47:27 -0500 Received: from lindt.urgle.com ([80.177.40.51]:14342 "EHLO lindt.urgle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:47:26 -0500 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:56:24 +0000 From: Mike Bristow To: Bill Studenmund Cc: arief_mulya , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tech@openbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux Message-ID: <20030124225624.GB23410@lindt.urgle.com> Reply-To: mike@urgle.com References: <3E30C2A5.5040502@bna.telkomsel.co.id> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [ Reply-To set to me: This is probably off topic for all of the lists: all of the ones I read, anyway. ] On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:03:53AM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote: > > 2. How does it differ? What are the technical reasoning > > behind the decisions? > > They differ in most technical areas. Mainly as the *BSD kernels were > derived from 4.4-Lite, and Linux was derived, I believe, from Minux. Point of order: Linux was a cleanroom implementation, using IIRC Minux as the host OS until such time as it became self-hosting. -- You can't do maths without e -- David Walters - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/