On Thursday 09 August 2001 02:51 pm, Jimmy wrote:
> If FreeBSD is not _linux_ why is it in http://www.linuxiso.org ???
> (question ko lang to ah, I don't want to this to be a flame war)
>
www.linuxiso.org provides iso's for anybody who is interested and then some.
If you notice all the linux distro iso's specifically indicate /Linux iso.
The FreeBSD iso and the NetBSD iso don't.
While Linux is Unix-like. BSD is a Unix variant. This simply means that
linux was developed from ground up and BSD is a Unix adaptation by the
Computer Systems Research Group of Berkeley. (BTW, GNU which Linux borrows
heavily from, stands for GNU's not Unix, a recursive acronym coined by
Richard Stallman.)
All this points too is BSD is not Linux or vice versa. Nor does it
necessarily make one better than the other :) In fact, while I am
unabashedly a Linux user, I do realize that the TCP/IP networking as we know
it, and that we often take for granted, is a contribution of BSD to the
computing world at large. :)
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