From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 30 17:44:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA16930 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:44:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA16909 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:44:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA02010; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:44:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:44:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Support cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Difference between BSDs In-Reply-To: <32772AAF.45D1@public.jn.sd.cn> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Support wrote: > I want to know what's the difference between NetBSD, FreeBSD and BSD386, > etc. NetBSD and FreeBSD are very similar, two (unfortunate) separate branches of development. BSD386 is the progenor of FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and isn't around anymore. It was originally a patchkit to the BSD sources to make it i386-capable. (I think?) See the web pages -- there may be a history page tucked in there somewhere. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major