From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 14:23:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89DA537B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 14:23:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 10784 invoked by uid 100); 5 Mar 2001 22:16:44 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15012.4172.716615.331667@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:16:44 -0600 To: Konrad Heuer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Strains In-Reply-To: <34896724@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Konrad Heuer types: > On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Benjamin Flom wrote: > > I am involved in planning the beginnings of an ISP. We plan to do > > web/ftp/streaming media/transactions/remote storage/etc.... > > I am trying to understand the differences between FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSD > > Lite, OpenBSD, etc. Any info that can be provided would be helpful. > FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD are based on 4.4BSD Lite. BSD Lite is really only of historical interest. BSD proper came from the Computer Systems Research Group at UCB (whence the B in BSD), primarily including the code they had an ARPA grant to develop, but including code from lots of other places. A number of things happened that caused CSRG to disband and stop distributing code. The various other BSDs (Free, Open, Net and BSDi) have continued development from that point, and those are the ones you should consider. Since no one else has mentioned it, BSDi is the commercial variant. You can get source and an unlimited install license, but it also has commercial support if that makes the managers happy. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message