Re: Is Linux BSD or System V ?

General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:42:02 -0800, iforone wrote:


notbob wrote:
On 2006-02-27, Wad <wad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Any take on why FreeBSD is not more popular? I find it extremely rare
to read much about it in the forums. It doesn't even appear to have an
alt. group. And with distros like DesktopBSD and PC-BSD you'd think
they would get much more exposure then they do!

It's probably more popular than you realize. BSD'ers are just not as
clamerous as Linux users. One of the largest web hosting companies,
Ipower, uses FreeBSD, and if memory serves, Hotmail ran on FreeBSD for a
couple years before M$ got its act together. BSD in all its guises is
alive and well.

nb

FWIW - on my Debian Sarge install (3.1r1 -- 2.6.8-2-i386)-- you'll note
that via CTRL-ALT-F1 (2,3,4,5) -- I see this message;

Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell Server: sshd

ahhh......homogenization :-)

??? Linux uses whatever it can, and from wherever it can. It uses X which
is neither BSD not SysV, --- it used to be XFree, and is not XOrg on may
distros. It will use BSD programs if they have been ported to Linux. It
uses gnu programs, it uses commercial programs, it uses whatever it can.



OpenSSH comes from the BSD people. It runs on BSD, Linux and even Windows.
The BSD license doesn't put any restrictions on where it can be used so
you'll see BSD code in both open and closed source OSes. For
example Microsoft was using the BSD IP stack in Windows (they probably
still are).

Yup. And many other programs from many other sources.

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