Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:32:03 -0700 From: "Angus Scott-Fleming" <angussf@geoapps.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *BSD flavours? Message-ID: <199806160444.VAA21991@baygull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <19980611004224.07077@nothing-going-on.org> References: <199806100600.XAA10032@baygull.rtd.com>; from Angus Scott-Fleming on Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 10:43:51PM -0700
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On 11 Jun 98 at 0:42, Nik Clayton wrote: > NetBSD (if my understanding is correct) is more of a direct > descendent from 4.3BSD (there was no intermediate 386BSD stage) > although in the intervening time there has been a lot of 'cross > pollenisation' > > FreeBSD (because of it's 386BSD roots) has already been targeted at > the Intel platform. NetBSD runs on many different platforms. Hmmm. Sounds like their might be some advantages to running NetBSD over FreeBSD because of the multi-platform support. Or is FreeBSD's Alpha port the harbinger of Good Things in this regard? > OpenBSD's particular speciality is security. Funny how Open* works on closing loopholes <g> ... Thanks for the rundown .... ---- Angus Scott-Fleming, GeoApplications angussf@geoapps.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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