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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
Date: 13 Oct 1994 10:35:32 GMT
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In <37ii2n$2i2@bigboote.WPI.EDU> joev@res.WPI.EDU (Joseph W. Vigneau) writes:

>Well, FreeBSD is closer to Ultrix (which is BSD based) by definition :)
>Linux, which is SYSV based, also has a lot of BSDisms with it...

Be careful calling Linux SYSV based.  Linux is not based on the SYSV
source tree -- if it were, you would be paying a lot of money.  I think
Linux tries, rather, to take nice features from both BSD and SYSV, and
provide a fairly POSIX-complient implementation (for what POSIX is
worth).

I would rather say that Linux is "Linux-based" rather than "SYSV-based"
:-)

Geoff.

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