History Question

[Tim Schmidt]

Yes, This is what I've read countless times...  that Linux was built from 
the ground up (of course, starting from the home-brew kernel of Linus) and 
at most borrowed some misc code from Minix for a couple of months while 
Linus hacked out his own.  That's why I was wondering where this supposed 
"core of Linux came from BSD" stance came from...


>From: Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu>
>To: Tim Schmidt <computer_holic@hotmail.com>
>CC: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
>Subject: Re: History Question
>Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:54:04 -0400 (EDT)
>
>On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Tim Schmidt wrote:
> > Read the folowing statement in a news snippet here:
> >
> > http://www.home-networking.org/stories/20000311152900.html
> >
> > ----
> > The BSD operating system, which was developed between 1979 and 1992 by 
>the
> > Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California at 
>Berkeley,
> > makes up the core of most Unix and Unix-based operating systems, 
>including
> > Linux.
> > ----
> >
> > This is far from true, correct?
> > Either way, I'ld appreciate some history on the intertwinings of the BSD 
>and
> > Linux communities...  I am relatively familiar with the differences in
> > liscencing, but not politics/shared code.
>
>
>IIRC, BSD is *not* Unix, as "Unix" is trademarked (?) by AT&T.
>When BSD finally purged the last of the borrowed code (in 4.4BSD
>I believe), they lost the ability to refer to it as "Unix".  Linux
>is also not Unix, and in fact doesn't officially have a place in
>the "Unix family tree" (BSD does because it was derived from AT&T,
>even though all the AT&T code is gone now), because Linux was
>developed entirely independently, with the goal of course to be
>"Unix-like".   There's more to the story, some of which I know but
>most of which I don't. ;)  Anyways, at one point we had a "History
>of 'Unix'" presentation at a GLLUG meeting that talked about a
>bunch of stuff.  Someone at some other point mentioned wanting to
>know about the differences between Linux and BSD (FreeBSD specifically
>IIRC), so that might make a good future topic for a meeting.  =)
>
>--
>Edward Glowacki			glowack2@msu.edu
>Network Services
>Michigan State University
>
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