[geeks] SCO sues IBM (pure UNIX *BSD)

[Kevin]

Thanks for the info.  I might give NetBSD a shot.  I'm
used to a lot of stuff i would have to add i suppose,
ssh, top and a shell that will do TAB completion, but
as long as i can add it it sounds good.  I like the
additive approach much more than the subtractive :)

Thanks again,
/KRM

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 16:52:41 +0100
Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 04:49:08AM -0500, Kevin
> wrote:
> 
> > "Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at celestrion.celestrion.net>
> > wrote:
> > > In my opinion, the most pure unix is NetBSD.  I
> > > mean, it descends
> > > directly from the old BSD unix distribution
> > More so than FreeBSD?  I'm not debating, i'm
> > asking. 
> Well, hmm. All BSD systems (Free, Net, Open, BSD/OS
> (and Darwin)) are derived from the same 4.4BSD
> codebase. [1] What makes NetBSD to "the most pure
> unix" is hard to describe. It is small and very
> puristic. It has everything that a unix must have,
> but no additional "features". E.g. no bash and no
> perl. If you want this you have to add it via the
> pkgsrc system, it is not in the base system. NetBSD
> has a very clean and orthogonal design. Everything
> "feels" very "unixish". I call NetBSD my personal
> unix reference implementation.
> The latest FreeBSD I used heavily was 2.2.8, long
> gone. It seams that the FreeBSD people take things
> more "pragmatic" like the NetBSD developers. E.g.
> FreeBSD replaced csh with tcsh. Somthing that would
> never happen with NetBSD. But it is still much more
> unix than every Linux distribution. (IMHO)
> I never worked with OpenBSD, so I can't talk about
> this. 
> 
> [1] This is not quite exact. The first FreeBSD and
> NetBSD versions where based on 4.3BSD NET/2. But due
> to legal constrains they imported 4.4BSD Lite later
> and pulled over what they had added to the 4.3BSD
> NET/2 codebase. You remember that AT&T lawsuit?-- 
> 
> 
> 
> tsch|_,
>           Jochen
> 
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