Re: book

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd@2003.snew.com>]

Quoting Francisco Valladolid (francisco@vmicrosistemas.com):
>   Well, there are a book in proccess, posible relesease is in June/2003
>   The Absolute OpenBSD book, while please chechk this links...
>   
>   http://nomoa.com/bsd
>   
>   There are articles on FTP, MySQL, SSH, X windows... etc.
>   
>  and the FAQ. in http://openbsd.org/faq.html
>   
>   The answer to question on RedHat is the Following: ... RedHat is UNIX System V and OpenBSD is based in 4.4 BSD, both systems are diferents. The security and rules are not the same...Please try reading about the OpenBSD Philosophy and goals, at the time tah you read about the services( FTP, Apache, MySQL, etc...)

I suppose Linus and several people would be surprised to find
that RedHat is based on Unix System V.  (SCO may claim otherwise,
but SCO's major shareholder (since the 80's) is a Redmond
company who stands to make billions by scaring users from
running Linux and Unix.  Me?  It gives me flashbacks to 1991-4
when Linux came along and took because BSD was stalled due to
a similar ATT suit while unix-capable machines suddenly didn't
take up a room and could be bought by about anyone.)

Lets see: there's the kernel, which was based on Andy's Tenenbaum's Minix
(written so he could teach OS's and not have to deal with difficult ATT
licenses).

There's userland.  Which is mostly GNU.  Gnu's Not Unix System V, kinda
by definition.

Redhat uses init levels and startups scripts that look like System III (-V),
but FreeBSD 5, NetBSD 1.6 and others use rc.d/ directories to start things.


No, Linux and Redhat are not System V.

So go read up you computer history (Salus's Casting the Net
and 25 Years of Unix are great reads) and come back when you
are ready to not make statements based on easily checked wrong
assumptions.