Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 19, 2007 06:08 PM
>I feel FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and now Solaris (now that it is "free software") are all distros.
You have got a feeling, some people have got knowledge. *BSD are forks of BSD and Solaris (former SunOS) too. Linux is only the kernel, a kernel isn't an operating system. So it has got a GNU-userland. How this looks like in reality depends on the distro. This isn't true with BSD Forks. They are open-source derivatives of BSD, the original patchset to Unix and later BSD operating system.
"A Linux distribution, often simply distribution or distro, is a member of the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems comprised of the Linux kernel, the non-kernel parts of the GNU operating system, and assorted other software. Linux distributions take a variety of forms, from fully-featured desktop and server operating systems to minimal environments (typically for use in embedded systems, or for booting from a floppy)."
Wikipedia.org
Of course you can teach us some lessons in lexicology, but we're talking of computers and open-source, so the context defines the meaning of the word.
You have a windows in your house, some people have Windows at their desktop. Think about it<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...
"The BSD operating systems are not clones, but open source derivatives of AT&T's Research UNIX operating system, which is also the ancestor of the modern UNIX System V. This may surprise you. How could that happen when AT&T has never released its code as open source?
It's true that AT&T UNIX is not open source, and in a copyright sense BSD is very definitely not UNIX, but on the other hand, AT&T has imported sources from other projects, noticeably the Computer Sciences Research Group of the University of California in Berkeley, CA. Starting in 1976, the CSRG started releasing tapes of their software, calling them Berkeley Software Distribution or BSD."
So some people call this a fork. Linux can only distribute, so to speak take some software, put it together and give it away. How to put it together? Don't know, nobody cares about it.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 19, 2007 06:08 PMYou have got a feeling, some people have got knowledge. *BSD are forks of BSD and Solaris (former SunOS) too.
Linux is only the kernel, a kernel isn't an operating system. So it has got a GNU-userland. How this looks like in reality depends on the distro. This isn't true with BSD Forks. They are open-source derivatives of BSD, the original patchset to Unix and later BSD operating system.
"A Linux distribution, often simply distribution or distro, is a member of the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems comprised of the Linux kernel, the non-kernel parts of the GNU operating system, and assorted other software. Linux distributions take a variety of forms, from fully-featured desktop and server operating systems to minimal environments (typically for use in embedded systems, or for booting from a floppy)."
Wikipedia.org
Of course you can teach us some lessons in lexicology, but we're talking of computers and open-source, so the context defines the meaning of the word.
You have a windows in your house, some people have Windows at their desktop. Think about it<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...
Greg Lehey explains FreeBSD:
<a href="http://www.lemis.com/bsdpaper.html" title="lemis.com">http://www.lemis.com/bsdpaper.html</a lemis.com>
"The BSD operating systems are not clones, but open source derivatives of AT&T's Research UNIX operating system, which is also the ancestor of the modern UNIX System V. This may surprise you. How could that happen when AT&T has never released its code as open source?
It's true that AT&T UNIX is not open source, and in a copyright sense BSD is very definitely not UNIX, but on the other hand, AT&T has imported sources from other projects, noticeably the Computer Sciences Research Group of the University of California in Berkeley, CA. Starting in 1976, the CSRG started releasing tapes of their software, calling them Berkeley Software Distribution or BSD."
So some people call this a fork. Linux can only distribute, so to speak take some software, put it together and give it away. How to put it together? Don't know, nobody cares about it.
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