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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:11:23 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Rob Garrett <eagle@eagle.phc.igs.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Looking for *BSD Insight...
Message-ID:  <19990823091123.I14964@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <99081615401501.03313@eagle.phc.igs.net>; from Rob Garrett on Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 03:38:20PM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908161301290.29371-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> <99081615401501.03313@eagle.phc.igs.net>

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On Monday, 16 August 1999 at 15:38:20 -0400, Rob Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Konrad Heuer wrote:
>> Historically, the NetBSD was the very first one, and the FreeBSD project
>> started a little bit later. Both use a more hierarchical development model
>> with a fixed core team, registered system developers etc. OpenBSD spinned
>> off from NetBSD later, and its model is more liberal and a bit like the
>> Linux model.
>
> My understanding is that historically, the 386 bsd project split into two
> groups netbsd and freebsd.....

Well, not quite.  Both FreeBSD and NetBSD split off the 386BSD
project, which continued for some time afterwards.

> so technically neither one was really before the other

Well, no, NetBSD split off first.

Greg
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