Re: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux

From: Mike Bristow (mike@urgle.com)
Date: Fri Jan 24 2003 - 17:56:24 EST

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[ 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.

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