Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 00:42:24 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: angussf@geoapps.com, newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *BSD flavours? Message-ID: <19980611004224.07077@nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <199806100600.XAA10032@baygull.rtd.com>; from Angus Scott-Fleming on Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 10:43:51PM -0700 References: <199806100600.XAA10032@baygull.rtd.com>
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On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 10:43:51PM -0700, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: > I just discovered that there are multiple flavours of BSD. What is > the difference between the following BSDs and why should I care? /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree shows how they are descended from one another. In a nutshell; > freeBSD http://www.freebsd.org > > NetBSD http://www.netbsd.org Both descended from the 4.3BSD Net/2 edition. In FreeBSD's case this was via BSD386. FreeBSD started off as 386BSD + 'the patchkit' which eventually got to be so large that a number of individuals (Jordan Hubbard, Terry Lambert, amongst others) got tired of maintaining all the patches and split it off as a separate product after Bill Joy (?) stopped supporting 386BSD. NetBSD (if my understanding is correct) is more of a direct descendent from 4.3BSD (there was no intermediate 386BSD stage) although in the intervening time there has been a lot of 'cross pollenisation' FreeBSD (because of it's 386BSD roots) has already been targeted at the Intel platform. NetBSD runs on many different platforms. > OpenBSD http://www.openbsd.org Split from NetBSD roughly a year, year and a half ago. One of the members of the NetBSD core team, Theo de Raadt has what might best be described as an abrasive debating style. NetBSD -core asked him to tone it down a bit when making NetBSD related announcements and comments. Misunderstandings arose, and Theo eventually decided to split from NetBSD and form OpenBSD. OpenBSD's particular speciality is security. Theo (and friends) are very proactive in auditing the source tree for obscure and not so obscure bugs and patching them. N -- You are in a maze of twisty signature files all the same. -- You are in a maze of twisty signature files all alike. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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