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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4389 comp.os.linux.misc:31498 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!news.galt.com!phred.ws.cc.cmu.edu!alex From: alex@pc.cc.cmu.edu (alex wetmore) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Summary: BSD vs. LINUX Date: 12 Dec 1994 19:47:37 GMT Organization: Phred Networking Lines: 14 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3ci9cp$h3s@dagny.galt.com> References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <KSTAILEY.94Dec12131534@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: phred.ws.cc.cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Kenneth Stailey (kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote: > BSD is an old research UN*X that became (legally) available for free > recently (more recently than LINUX's arrival). BSD's Computer Science > Research Group (CSRG) is no longer developing it, but other sites are > still producing new technologies using BSD (CMU's LITES for instance). Just for the record, CMU has nothing to do with LITES (which is the 4.4-lite server for Mach). Also, BSD has been free for about the same amount of time as Linux (Net/2 was around before Linux, 386bsd 0.0 came out around the same time as the early (pre 0.95) Linuxes). alex