Re: [Freeglut-developer] RedHat and BSD

[Joe K. <kr...@ni...>]

Larry E. Ramey wrote:
> John,
> 
> 
> Red Hat is NOT BSD.
> 
> FreeBSD  is an open source Unix for PCs based on Berkley System V. Linux 
> is the OS written by Mr. Torvaldis. (I have no idea what he based it on).
> 
> RedHat is a specific Branch of Linux sold by the RedHat company. (Now 
> called RHEL if you pay for it, or Fedora Core if you download it yourself.)
> 
> Larry
> 
...
Actually, Linux is just the Kernel. It's not based on anything. Linus 
built it from scratch, so there's no legal/political history associated 
with it, as with BSD. That's why Gnu-Linux is the choice of hard-core 
Free-Software people.

Joe