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Originally posted by raceprouk
No, Unix is Unix. FreeBSD is one of the three BSDs that are based on Unix. Linux is also based on Unix.
Incorrect. The BSD branch is -the- closest thing around to the original Unix. Hence, for all accounts and purposes it IS Unix.
Linux is NOT derived from Unix source code, but its interfaces are intentionally like Unix. Therefore, Unix lessons learned generally apply to both, including information on security.
Originally, the term "Unix'' meant a particular product developed by AT&T. The history of Unix is somewhat convoluted. The academic community, led by Berkeley, developed a variant called the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), while AT&T continued developing Unix under the names "System III'' and later "System V''. System V ended up incorporating many BSD innovations, so the resulting system was more a merger of the two branches.
That merger, in essence, makes BSD Unix.
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