I beg to differ. I realize that parts of Linux we're/are base on BSD code (The TCP/IP stack, NAT, ipfw), but these things are chainging. And example would be, kernel 2.2 introduced linux's own firewalling/nat suite in ipchains.
Linux is already ahead of BSD in the SMP domain, and with 2.4, people will see improved SMP support, USB, firewire, and better IrDA. And the author admits it himself, FreeBSD uses GNU software for "8% of the utilities and 15% of the libraries".
The fact is both operating systems compliment each other, and they're really not that different. And right now, the Linux Kernel development is working faster than the FreeBSD Kernel.
So when USB keyboards and mice become standard, I wonder who's USB code FreeBSD will be using..
In many ways, Linux is a FreeBSD clone? (Score:1)
Linux is already ahead of BSD in the SMP domain, and with 2.4, people will see improved SMP support, USB, firewire, and better IrDA. And the author admits it himself, FreeBSD uses GNU software for "8% of the utilities and 15% of the libraries".
The fact is both operating systems compliment each other, and they're really not that different. And right now, the Linux Kernel development is working faster than the FreeBSD Kernel.
So when USB keyboards and mice become standard, I wonder who's USB code FreeBSD will be using..
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