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Old 17-03-2005, 03:42 PM   #5 (permalink)
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The .deb package managament scheme is based around the wonderful utility called APT... though this APT is in itself based around the BSD ports management scheme which is far more superior than any other pacakage management systems including RPMs and Slacks.

Gentoo also uses BSD like ports managament, which makes it different than other GNU-on-top-of-Linux distributions.

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Originally Posted by vipul
But Now U tell Me About FreeBSD.
and Macintosh
For FreeBSD, you may want to visit this page. It shows what FreeBSD is and how it evolved.
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html

MacOS is based on the GNU/Darwin operating system. See the apple page for more info. The Darwin kernel is in turn based on the CMU Mach 3.0 Microkernel.
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/darwin/

And remember, if you are interested in Unix history then look in google and Wikipedia, ... you see, Unix history is very very vast and needs a lot of reading.. It isn't possible for us to write down everything here..
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