lorddef wrote:
Hmm, never tried BSD, I heard it was very similar to Linux or used the Linux kernal, is this correct?
No. The current crop of BSD's are based on the 4.4-Lite Berkeley Software Distributions. The basic jist that Bell Labs (at on time a part of AT&T) sold UNIX source code licenses for small sums to educational organizations. UC Berkeley bought one and began patching AT&T's code.
Over time, they wrote so many patches they had rewritten just about the whole OS. So, they decided to make thier own distribution. AT&T sued the Regents of Berkeley in 1992. The judge determined that Berkeley had indeed written thier own code and it belonged to Berkely save for something like 17 files that still belonged to AT&T. Those 17 files were removed from BSD and BSD became free in 1994.
Have a look at the graphic
*HERE* to get an idea of the lineage of UNIX, BSD and Linux.
A brief history of BSD is
*HERE*.
