From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 15 21:14:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA03759 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 21:14:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA03712 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 21:14:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu (root@saul6.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.1]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id VAA28934; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 21:13:40 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul6.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id VAA12241; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 21:13:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 21:13:24 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: "Shishir K. Ramam" cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: differences between Free and Net BSD. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Shishir K. Ramam wrote: > what are the differences between Net and FreeBSD? or are the reasons >more historical? FreeBSD and NetBSD are similar. They both have a common bloodline. They both borrow from each other. FreeBSD lends "ports" to NetBSD. NetBSD software is help FreeBSD with Alpha platform development. I don't know really if there is a huge difference. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message