OpenEuphoria

RE: Sunday's The Day

• Posted by Ray Smith <smithr at ix.net.au> Dec 21, 2002
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C. K. Lester wrote:
> > I'll load Mandrake on one and FreeBSD on the other.
> 
> Why FreeBSD? Is that a *nix like Linux?

Well, Linux is the new comer,  BSD Unix has been stable and used by 
many thousdands of people before Linux was ever invented.

BSD Unix started at the university of California at Berkeley 
(in the late 70's I think).
The current BSD Unix's (FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD) all are off shoots
of the original BSD Unix.

Some people describe Linux as a "Unix Like" OS, I don't really know
what that means????  There are many flavours of "Unix" and I would
have guessed that Linux is just one of these flavours.

Here's a link to a BSD Unix FAQ:
http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/386bsd-faq/part1.html

It's interesting to note that all the talk and media seem to be on Linux
even though the BSD *nix's seem just as (if not more?) mature than 
Linux.

I'll know more in a few months when I do some more reading and load a 
BSD Unix.

Regards,

Ray Smith
http://rays-web.com