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RE: [linux-team] ooopss



Title: RE: [linux-team] ooopss

Bon comme dab j'ai le réflexe de poser des questions avant même de chercher un peu les réponses alors voici un résumé de ce que j'ai trouvé en guise d'excuses...

mais j'ai toujours une zone sombre entre freeBSD et OpenBSD ...

1)

Linux  is  a  clone  of  UNIX written by Linus Torvalds, a student in Helsinki,
Finland.  At the time, the BSD sources were not freely available, and so  Linus
wrote his own version of UNIX.
Linux  is a superb example of how a few dedicated, clever people can produce an
operating system that is better than well-known commercial systems developed by
a  large number of trained software engineers.  It is better even than a number
of commercial UNIX systems.
Obviously, I don't think Linux is as good as FreeBSD, or I wouldn't be  writing
this  book,  but the differences between FreeBSD and Linux are more a matter of
philosophy rather than of concept.  Here are a few contrasts:

               Table 1-1.  Differences between FreeBSD and Linux

FreeBSD is a direct  descendent  of  the   Linux is a clone and never contained any
original  UNIX,  though  it  contains no   AT&T coderesidual AT&T code.
FreeBSD  is a complete operating system,   Linux is a kernel, personally maintained
maintained by a central group  of  soft-   by  a  Linus  Torvalds.   The non-kernel
ware  developers.   There  is  only  one   programs supplied with Linux are part of
release of FreeBSD.                        a  distribution, of which there are sev-
                                           eral.
FreeBSD aims to be a  stable  production   Linux  is  still a ``bleeding edge'' de-
environment.                               velopment environment, though many  dis-
                                           tributions  aim to make it more suitable
                                           for production use.
FreeBSD  is  still  relatively  unknown,   Linux  did  not  have  any  lawsuits  to
since  its  distribution  was restricted   contend with, so for a long time it  was
for a long time due  to  the  AT&T  law-   the  only  free  UNIX-type system avail-
suits.                                     able.
As a result of the lack of knowledge  of   A growing amount of commercial  software
FreeBSD, not much commercial software is   is becoming available for Linux.
available for it.
As  a  result  of the smaller user base,   Just  about any new board will soon have
fewer drivers are available for  FreeBSD   a driver for Linux.than for Linux.
Because of the lack of commercial appli-   Linux  appears not to need to be able to
cations  and  drivers,  FreeBSD will run   run FreeBSD programs or drivers.
most Linux  program.   The  drivers  canalso be ported relatively simply.
FreeBSD has a large number of afficiona-   Linux has a large number of afficionados
dos  who  are  prepared to flame anybody   who are prepared to  flame  anybody  who
who dares suggest that it's  not  better   dares  suggest that it's not better than
than Linux.                                FreeBSD.

In summary, Linux is also a very good operating system.  For many, it's  better
than  FreeBSD.   It's  a pity that so many people on both sides are prepared to
flame each other.


2)
Linux is SysV-flavored (barely); FreeBSD is BSD-flavored (definitely).

3)
Linux tends to be more cutting-edge and trendy, and tends to work with more
hardware (to some degree), partly because of the "arrangements" made with
vendors.  FreeBSD requires that source code be freely obtainable for
(nearly?) all it's parts .  The hardware that _is_ supported tends to be done pretty robustly.

4)
Remember: FreeBSD is not a clone! Linux is! i.e. FreeBSD is Unix(r)

5)
Please, this isn't a "My OS is better/bigger than your OS"
discussion/arguement/whatnot, and I think its delved a lot more off the
original thread.
Both linux and FreeBSD have their good and bad points, and unless you are
going to constructively point them out, don't say anything.--

6) ....      There is this vast amount of inter dependence that you need to be
   aware of when maintaining a Linux box.
7) inutile mais amusant

              | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ...
              | (also known as the Good, the bad and the
              |               ugly..)

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Stilmant [mailto:michael.stilmant@adtech.be]
Sent: mercredi 28 avril 1999 20:06
To: 'linux-team@rtfm.be'
Subject: [linux-team] ooopss


hum hum
:-)
Est-ce que quelqu'un peut me faire une brève comparaison entre NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD et Linux ? (tous ca a un www. .org, avec le code source libre)

entre FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, et  j'ai déjà découvert que le logo officiel
est respectivement un daemon avec des baskettes, un daemon avec une auréole, un pingouin avec un gros derrière (dixit http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/gif/bsd/userfriendly.html )

Mais et au niveau du noyau ?
Est-ce que Linus c'est inspiré d'une de ces distribution de BSD ?