Subj : Re: BSD vs. Linux
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Joe Attardi
Date : Sat Jul 10 2004 07:17 am

Don't forget the guy who got Minix started, Andrew Tanenbaum!

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Tran Tuan Anh wrote:
> 
> 
>>Dear all,
>>
>>Could someone elaborate the differences between BSD and Linux?
>>I am an Unix user (Linux at home, and Solaris at school) though know
>>nothing about the system admin stuff.
>>People keep telling me that BSD kernel is better, more stable, and free.
>>
>>So if the BSD kernel is free and stable why Linus still wrote Linux
>>kernel? or something to do with the license issue?
> 
> Linus did not start out to develop a kernel. Secondly, I don't beleive that
> FreeBSD was available at that time. He was initially building on Minix. 
> 
> Back in the early days of Linux and FreeBSD (and NetBSD) the BSD kernel was
> certainly more stable. Today, both are very stable, but Linux as a system
> tends to move forward faster to support new features. Both systems have
> excellent mascots.

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