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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!torvalds
- From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
- Subject: Re: 386BSD vs Linux: major differences?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.115036.7197@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <davis.724817863@csrg2>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 11:50:36 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- In article <davis.724817863@csrg2> davis@csrg2.ee.iastate.edu (Jim Davis) writes:
- > But I have wondered
- >why there are two efforts to provide a free UNIX...is it just coincidence
- >that two groups developed a distribution at about the same time? or did
- >they have different goals? or is this a BSD vs. System-V thing?
-
- It's just coincidence: I knew about 386bsd through DDJ, but it obviously
- wasn't ready when I would have wanted it, so I just started on my own.
- If 386bsd had been ready one year earlier, I'd probably not have started
- on linux at all, but used bsd instead - although I'm very happy with how
- it all turned out.
-
- As to bsd vs sysv - no, nothing like that. Linux isn't exactly sysv,
- but has a lot of features from both camps, and looks a bit more like
- sysv simply because POSIX generally leans in that direction.
-
- Linus
-