On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 11:39:26AM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> No, not at all.  NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and BSD/OS (and sort-of Darwin) are
> "derived from the same point" in some meaningful sense.  NetBSD and V9 Unix
> might be a little related.  Linux is a total rewrite from scratch by different
> people with different goals.

Not to throw any more confusion on the subject, but...

Curious: how much of BSD was rewritten between 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD? If
I recall correctly, much of userland and libc was totally rewritten
from scratch and specs to remove AT&T taint.(?)

Of course, these coders still had different goals than the Linux guys.


I'm not in the wrong thread twice in one day, am I? Hope not...
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