Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 11:52:21 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: "Raymundo M. Vega" <RaymundoVega@home.com>, Michael Hourihan/LP&P <Michael_Hourihan@lpp.com>, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question Message-ID: <20000617115221.C266@dialin-client.earthlink.net> 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 %2B0100 References: <OF9549A9BD.8F4D72BB-ON852568FD.006F53EF@loispaul.com> <39469EB2.6FF247EF@home.com> <20000617142121.A77785@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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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
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