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> According to the title, this is about choosing FreeBSD over Linux, not over Unix. "Unix" hasn't referred to a specific operating system since the 1980s. Free

by chungy 7y ago

> According to the title, this is about choosing FreeBSD over Linux, not over Unix. "Unix" hasn't referred to a specific operating system since the 1980s. FreeBSD and Linux are both Unix OSes: different flavors of it.

viraptor 7y ago
That is my point though. Not every Unix system has a package manager. But almost every Linux distribution does.
- ekianjo 7y ago
  That's even one of they key attributes that makes differences between distributions: the package manager. Other major ones include the init system, and whether the distro is rolling release or not.
saagarjha 7y ago
Linux isn’t really a UNIX, though.
- hollander 7y ago
  Isn't Linux an anagram (no not an anagram but I can't come up with the right word) for Linux Is Not UNix? https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/LINUX https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/LINUX
  - rejschaap 7y ago
    You might be thinking of GNU, which is a recursive acronym that stands for "GNU's Not Unix". As far as I understand it we got the name Linux because Linus Torvalds was quite bad at naming things. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Naming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Naming
  - hkt 7y ago
    Backronym?
  - noisem4ker 7y ago
    It's a recursive acronym.
  - laumars 7y ago
    No, that’s GNU with the “not UNIX” recursive acronym. Linux was named by the guy who first hosted Linus’ OS and was an amalgamation of “Linus” and “UNIX” (“nix” was a popular suffix for platforms of that type back in those days so “Linux” was a play on the authors name in the style of that naming convention). If I recall correctly, Linus originally wanted his OS to be called “Freenix” because he thought naming it after himself was a little vein.
- Koshkin 7y ago
  For all intensive purposes, it is.
  - cercatrova 7y ago
    Intents and purposes
  - sudosysgen 7y ago
    I think the expression might be "for all intents and purposes".
    - Koshkin 7y ago
      I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment...
      - sudosysgen 7y ago
        goddamnit, well played :)
- utxaa 7y ago
  really?
zelphirkalt 7y ago
Well, if you want to be precise … Linux is a kernel.
- rbanffy 7y ago
  And the OS is called GNU/Linux. /me ducks

by chungy 7y ago

viraptor 7y ago

That is my point though. Not every Unix system has a package manager. But almost every Linux distribution does.

ekianjo 7y ago
That's even one of they key attributes that makes differences between distributions: the package manager. Other major ones include the init system, and whether the distro is rolling release or not.

saagarjha 7y ago

Linux isn’t really a UNIX, though.

hollander 7y ago
Isn't Linux an anagram (no not an anagram but I can't come up with the right word) for Linux Is Not UNix? https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/LINUX https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/LINUX
- rejschaap 7y ago
  You might be thinking of GNU, which is a recursive acronym that stands for "GNU's Not Unix". As far as I understand it we got the name Linux because Linus Torvalds was quite bad at naming things. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Naming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Naming
- hkt 7y ago
  Backronym?
- noisem4ker 7y ago
  It's a recursive acronym.
- laumars 7y ago
  No, that’s GNU with the “not UNIX” recursive acronym. Linux was named by the guy who first hosted Linus’ OS and was an amalgamation of “Linus” and “UNIX” (“nix” was a popular suffix for platforms of that type back in those days so “Linux” was a play on the authors name in the style of that naming convention). If I recall correctly, Linus originally wanted his OS to be called “Freenix” because he thought naming it after himself was a little vein.
Koshkin 7y ago
For all intensive purposes, it is.
- cercatrova 7y ago
  Intents and purposes
- sudosysgen 7y ago
  I think the expression might be "for all intents and purposes".
  - Koshkin 7y ago
    I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment...
    - sudosysgen 7y ago
      goddamnit, well played :)
utxaa 7y ago
really?

zelphirkalt 7y ago

Well, if you want to be precise … Linux is a kernel.

rbanffy 7y ago
And the OS is called GNU/Linux. /me ducks