From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 16 20:53:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA06808 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 20:53:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA06784 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 20:53:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA09449; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:22:22 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id NAA05927; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:22:21 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980817132221.V24176@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:22:21 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Martin Weinless , Brandon Lockhart Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (no subject) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Martin Weinless on Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 08:12:24PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (sequence corrected) On Sunday, 16 August 1998 at 20:12:24 -0700, Martin Weinless wrote: > On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Brandon Lockhart wrote: >>> What is the relation between freebsd, openbsd and netbsd? >> >> They all have the same suffix? Good enough for you? Search the internet >> for the three, and you will find out. I believe they are all focused on >> the same core code, and just evolved in different ways. Kind of like good >> and evil, cheech and chong, etc. > > The fact that they have the same suffix does not require a great deal of > perpescuity to determine. Thus the fact that they have the same core code > is not a great surprise. The real question is have they evolved for > different purposes i.e. netbsd geared towards networking apps? FreeBSD: good, solid, easy to use system on Intel only (in fact, this is no longer completely true: a version for Alpha is becoming available) NetBSD: As many platforms as possible. More of a hacker's operating system. OpenBSD: Derived from NetBSD. Specifically addresses security issues. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message