[NCLUG] FreeBSD versus Linux?

[Stephen Queen]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Alan Silverstein wrote:

> Could anyone here please give me a brief education on how FreeBSD
> relates to Linux?
>
> For odd reasons, I went looking for open sources for the old reliable
> "mailx" program.  I found a recent Debian version and got it to compile
> on FreeBSD (at frii.com), but it wasn't easy.  And at runtime it wants
> /usr/libexec/lockspool, which is absent.  Clearly there are some
> disappointing dialect issues here.
>
> Next I went hunting for a FreeBSD version of mailx.  Well I found the
> very nice www.freebsd.org site, but best I can tell, all it offers is
> the kernel/OS, no commands.  (So where did FRII get their commands
> sources?)
>
> I'm having no luck finding the "FreeBSD version of mailx", only some
> references to the fact it might exist, as in, "ported their bug fixes
> back."
>


Here is a good discussion of the differnces.
http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php

Steve