From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 17 11:53:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E96237B6AF for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 11:53:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool0633.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.252.123]) by merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA05890; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 11:53:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA00441; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 11:52:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 11:52:21 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Ben Smithurst Cc: "Raymundo M. Vega" , Michael Hourihan/LP&P , FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question Message-ID: <20000617115221.C266@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <39469EB2.6FF247EF@home.com> <20000617142121.A77785@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000617142121.A77785@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk on Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 02:21:22PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 02:21:22PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Raymundo M. Vega wrote: > > > Michael Hourihan/LP&P wrote: > > > >> What is the difference between BSD and BSDI? > > > > BSDI is a comercial Unix distribution...among others > > No, BSDi (not BSDI, check their website) is a company who distributes a > commercial Unix called BSD/OS. But now we're getting pedantic. And the > "BSD" in "BSDi" stands for "Berkeley Software Design", which is not what > the "BSD" in FreeBSD and other things stands for. You should point out that BSDI recently bought Walnut Creek, the biggest distributer of FreeBSD and IIRC, the actual entity that held the trademark, FreeBSD(tm). BSDI's and FreeBSD's code bases are too be merged. The differenced between the two will be shrinking to almost nil in the near future. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message