Hides in corner

[Makatiel]

http://tweakholic.prohosting.com/linux.JPG

It was on sale... Haha..

[phil]

Hmmm, nice coffee :D

[Makatiel]

Starbucks coffee has like 10X the caffiene content of all other coffees. Though I feel like I have been violated every time I buy something there..

[dnar]

Bahhh. "man" is your friend. :D

[Makatiel]

Who is "man" and why have I not met this person yet.. LOL

[Azzuron]

A very pretty Redhat book :) Coffee sux! I cant stand it! i prefer the caffinated sodas....

[siggy]

So why exactly are you hiding??

[EOC_Jason]

Down with Linux!!! FreeBSD Forever!!!!

[phil]

Originally posted by EOC_Jason
Down with Linux!!! FreeBSD Forever!!!!


Downloaded 4.5 yesterday....this is my project for this weekend :)

[siggy]

Originally posted by EOC_Jason
Down with Linux!!! FreeBSD Forever!!!!

Hey Dnar how come Jason gets away with this in the Linux forum????:(

[LBaker]

Originally posted by siggy


Hey Dnar how come Jason gets away with this in the Linux forum????:(

The whinning thread is somewhere else....:p :hugz:

[siggy]

ROFL, thank you LB :p

[EOC_Jason]

Hey Siggy, I think you need some coppertone, cuz you just got BURNED!!!!

j/p... you know we all love you... ;)

Actually, we all know that deep down, all linux users have BSD envy...

http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/images/linuxvsfreebsd.jpg

[Makatiel]

LOL

I love that picture.. Haha...

[Makatiel]

Originally posted by siggy
So why exactly are you hiding??


Just because I am sure I will be in here shortly when I start working with it asking 101 questions..

[Benjamino]

I am sure that I will regret asking... but what is the "real" difference. I thought that Linux was based on BSD. Is there a pure BSD distro? And if there is, is it something for a noob to approach?

[Makatiel]

They are all based off the same concept as far as I know, just different variations of the same idea.

[zhotfire]

Just a little something called "unix".... ;) :cool:

[Makatiel]

Yep.. Just a little something.. Nothing important..

I learned a SMALL bit of unix back when I was real young. About the same time MS Dos 3.2 was out if that gives you any idea. Couldn't tell you for the life of me what version of unix it was.

[EOC_Jason]

BSD is an actual derivitave of the original AT&T Unix...

Linux is a hand-written from scratch clone of Unix....

FreeBSD is based on BSD 4.4....

Esentially Unix all started back in 1969-1970 with AT&T Bell Labs "Version 6".... From there came BSD in 1977, and Version 7 in 1969....

From there on, every commercial Unix OS has pretty much gotten their influence (and code) from BSD & System V.3 (several versions down Version 7)...

BSD used to contain some of the actual AT&T code, but because of legal issues they re-wrote their own (back in the beginning)...

Actually when I was digging around some solaris files the other week, I found some comments in some source saying "Berkley Software Distribution"... hehe...

Linux was created from scratch and hand written without taking any of the code from other Unix OSes... it was ment to function the same though.

It's kind of like Coca Cola Classic & New Coke.... BSD is the real thing, and Linux is they wanna be new copy....

[EOC_Jason]

BTW... I'll take the pepsi taste test anyday... I know FreeBSD will spank Linux in raw networking performance....

I'm actually working on a series of articles for my site on FreeBSD, step by step installing and configuing stuff, then eventually it is going to be a shootout between FreeBSD 4.5 & RH 7.2.... (I will be fair, RH has some nice features that FBSD doesn't)...

The title is going to be something like:
FreeBSD: The Other White Meat ;)


Anyhow... off to bed... very late...

[dnar]

Originally posted by EOC_Jason
BSD is an actual derivitave of the original AT&T Unix...

Linux is a hand-written from scratch clone of Unix....

FreeBSD is based on BSD 4.4....

Esentially Unix all started back in 1969-1970 with AT&T Bell Labs "Version 6".... From there came BSD in 1977, and Version 7 in 1969....

From there on, every commercial Unix OS has pretty much gotten their influence (and code) from BSD & System V.3 (several versions down Version 7)...

BSD used to contain some of the actual AT&T code, but because of legal issues they re-wrote their own (back in the beginning)...

Actually when I was digging around some solaris files the other week, I found some comments in some source saying "Berkley Software Distribution"... hehe...

Linux was created from scratch and hand written without taking any of the code from other Unix OSes... it was ment to function the same though.

It's kind of like Coca Cola Classic & New Coke.... BSD is the real thing, and Linux is they wanna be new copy....
Yup yup. I agree with "most" of that. FreeBSD may well be the only surviving Unix one day soon. HP-UX looks like its dead (HP-SUX).

Caldera now own SCO (I use SCO Unix)... What does this tell you! A Linux company bought out a Unix !!!!! Ouch! BTW, I still love my SCO Unixware.... But for day to day workstation and server activities, I prefer my Linux anyday.

[Azzuron]

glad your not addicted to games! geez what a dissease this is!

[EOC_Jason]

Who misses their VAX servers? I do I do I do!!!!! NOT!!!!

Actually it was a pretty good machine back when I was in College... Most of the campus used the Sun servers for their email / web / etc... I was still on the good old vax... They finally retired that chunk of sh*t the last semester I was there... hehe... *sniff* *sniff* good times....


+-----------+ Terminal Sticker: "My other terminal is a chunk of sh*t too"
|+----+*****|
||****|*****|
|+----+VT100|
+-----------+

[siggy]

Originally posted by EOC_Jason
Hey Siggy, I think you need some coppertone, cuz you just got BURNED!!!!

j/p... you know we all love you... ;)

Actually, we all know that deep down, all linux users have BSD envy...

http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/images/linuxvsfreebsd.jpg

Great Picture. :cool: :D :D

I dont even know what BSD is..... well I know what BS is so is it BS Distributor?? :D

I had my days of unix too, I work for AT&T, I assure you we had no choice. :p

Would that happen to be you, standing at the railing?

[EOC_Jason]

Haha... no, that's not me... that is just some picture I found from someone elses post on OCF.

www.freebsd.org <--- Prepare to be enlightened!

[phil]

Just downloaded the freeBSD handbook....I'm going to print it out at work tonight :)

[Benjamino]

We have a few Linux Gurus here at work. So I had heard most of what you guys stated above... But I had to ask, it's funny how many "different" "absolutes" you get when you ask different people. I really would like to try it again, but my issue becomes that I like to just sit down and my $$$$ows desktop and tinker... and it might be a while before I can do that with Linux. So...

[Makatiel]

Well, I just hope dnar is around when I get this server put together because I have a feeling it is going to be harder than I think to hook it all up.. LOL

[zhotfire]

All this talk about "ancient" operating systems begs me to ask.... am i the only one who uses AS400 on a daily basis? :eek:

[Bruce]

AS400? Wasn't that replaced with the RS6000 about a million years ago?

[Azzuron]

had they discovered silicon back then?

[EOC_Jason]

I preferred an abacus... it was faster... lol.... j/p

[Azzuron]

didnt it take the original vaccume tube system hours to do a simple addition?

[zhotfire]

I'll take those as, "yes Tim, you're the only one living in 2002 and working in the 1980's...." :o

[Bruce]

Originally posted by zhotfire
I'll take those as, "yes Tim, you're the only one living in 2002 and working in the 1980's...." :o

Not true. If you were working in the 1980's you'd still be able to read the Hollerith punches on uninterpreted 80 column cards. Bet you can't (still?) do it.:D

[zhotfire]

Argh... the last time i saw a punched card was when i was debugging my mother's cobol & fortran progs... i wonder if that "computer" still exists... the card reader was fast thou... i'm always reminded of it when i hear the bill counters at the bank.... I'd have to say it's responsible for me being here today.... :D