Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:42:23 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Thomas Lau" <lkthomas@hkicable.com>, "'Linh Pham'" <lplist@closedsrc.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: why BSDi not Free but FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <001601c0c313$58f7be80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <001101c0c2c1$70aa2790$9c10123d@thomasq1rx10yf>
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A while ago, BSDi was "commercially supported" and FreeBSD was not. In short, you could buy a support contract for BSDi but not for FreeBSD. Thus, companies like Microsoft who were basically afraid of UNIX would only buy BSDi because they could then purchase support contracts for it. Today, BSDi offers support contracts for both their commercial BSD and FreeBSD. Also, they announced over a year ago that the commercial BSD was going to eventually switch over to using the FreeBSD kernel. So, from a support standpoint, the two OS's are the same. From a technical standpoint, though, they _have_ travelled on separate release trees. Not having a copy of it myself I don't know how divergent they are and how difficult a project it is to get them to use the same source tree. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Thomas Lau >Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 12:56 PM >To: 'Linh Pham' >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: why BSDi not Free but FreeBSD ? > > >So BSDi is better than FreeBSD? > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Linh Pham >Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 11:47 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Mike Meyer; Thomas Lau; questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: why BSDi not Free but FreeBSD ? > >On 2001-04-11, Ted Mittelstaedt scribbled: > ># There was - even Microsoft used BSDi for it's mailservers ># for years. > >Also, F5 uses BSD/OS for most of their load balancers. I think Intel >uses a portion of BSD/OS for their load balancers as well, but it's >mostly their own kernel I think. > >-- >Linh Pham >[lplist@closedsrc.org] > >// 404b - Brain not found > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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