Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 21:13:23 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: Ross Harvey <ross@ghs.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mhor5157@ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz, misc@openbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Why so many BSDs? Message-ID: <19991130211323.64143@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <199911302014.MAA16312@random.teraflop.com>; from Ross Harvey on Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 12:14:12PM -0800 References: <199911302014.MAA16312@random.teraflop.com>
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On Tuesday, 30 November 1999 at 12:14:12 -0800, Ross Harvey wrote: > I wasn't involved when any of the projects were started, but it's my > understanding that NetBSD was first. Certainly, it was the first with a > release. So, I would say, "don't ask us, when we started there were none." Well, in fact 386BSD predates all three free BSDs. The developer of 386BSD, Bill Jolitz, kept the source code for himself and didn't commit much-needed changes, so people split off their own projects, first NetBSD, then FreeBSD. OpenBSD split off NetBSD some time later. > Now, if you think about it, there are really four BSD's. The > for-profit BSDI did a release even earlier than NetBSD. Right. They also predate 386BSD. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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