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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:21:18 +0100 (CET)
From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net>
To: Lucas Czejgis <lucas@resitez.net>
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Subject: Re: Where did OpenBSD come from?
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On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Lucas Czejgis wrote:

> Hello!
> I have a little question, and I'm quite confused. I know, that first, was
> 386/BSD released, then came FreeBSD and NetBSD. But which *BSD gave "birth"
> to OpenBSD.
> In a book called "FreeBSD: The Complete Reference" the author says, that
> OpenBSD came out from FreeBSD.
> But, on this
> (http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux2.php), the
> author says: "Later on down the road, some internal disagreements within the
> NetBSD project caused the OpenBSD project to split off from it."
> And now I don't know where OpenBSD came from? FreeBSD or NetBSD?


Due to some (also personal reasons), Theo de Raadt split from NetBSD,
and started the OpenBSD project. On his page
http://zeus.theos.com/deraadt/coremail.html

there is the whole thing explained.

HTH
Olaf


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