From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 15 21:44:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06550 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:44:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from baygull.rtd.com (baygull.rtd.com [198.102.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA06530 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:44:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from uusite!ANGUSSF@baygull.rtd.com) Received: from uusite.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by baygull.rtd.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) with UUCP id VAA21991 for newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:44:11 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199806160444.VAA21991@baygull.rtd.com> Received: by sf.geoapps.com (MG PM3-Waf 3.42D); Mon, 15 Jun 98 21:41:40 -0700 (MST) From: "Angus Scott-Fleming" Organization: GeoApps To: Nik Clayton Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:32:03 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: *BSD flavours? Reply-to: angussf@geoapps.com CC: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG 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 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.54) Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ... 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