Is Linux BSD or System V 538
But, I thought I answered that!
"Linux cannot actually be either BSD or SysV. It is possible to configure a Linux to be more similar to one than the other, but it's unusual that anyone actually gets very close to either."
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article emmm, yeah True - there are other fun things...
I don't think using a few characteristics of one or the other means it is significantly like SysV or BSD.
True, but that doesn't make it enough like SysV to say it is the same.
For example, Patrick Volkerding made a comment way back in the beginnings of his Slackware release that it used BSD style init scripts, and everyone since then has said that it is BSD like. That simply is *not* true! It uses SysV R2 init scripts, not BSD init scripts. It has runlevels. It isn't anything like BSD unless you've never seen what SysV R2 looked like!
I'm convinced that Linux is what it is due to one simple fact: Linux Torvalds is... Linux Torvalds! Unique, priceless, and basically the root cause of everything Linux has become. (Compare Torvalds to Theo de Raadt, for example, and it is easy to understand why Linux and OpenBSD are both technically superior products, and Linux is more popular.)
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