From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 05:04:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA26119 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 05:04:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE [160.45.24.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA26089 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 05:04:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from mail.hanse.de (193.174.9.9) with smtp id ; Thu, 4 Apr 96 15:03 MEST Received: from wavehh.UUCP by mail.hanse.de with UUCP for alk@Think.COM id ; Thu, 4 Apr 96 15:03 MET DST Received: by wavehh.hanse.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03229; Thu, 4 Apr 96 15:03:07 +0200 Date: Thu, 4 Apr 96 15:03:07 +0200 From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Message-Id: <9604041303.AA03229@wavehh.hanse.de> To: alk@Think.COM Subject: Re: Why free/net/open? Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <199604031921.NAA00546@compound> Reply-To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk alk@Think.COM (Tony Kimball) wrote: >I have been unable to locate any adequate description of the reasons >for the divergence of NetBSD and FreeBSD, and again now of OpenBSD >from NetBSD. Can someone suggest a FAQ which addresses this issue? Some of the *current* philosophical differences between NetBSD and FreeBSD (these may not be the same as the reasons why the two projects started up seperatly) can be guessed from http://grisu.bik-gmbh.de/~cracauer/netbsd-vs-freebsd.english.html In short, the difference is not so much what the systems try to be, but how they work to reach these goals and what they consider to be important and has to be done first. The usefulness of a system at a given time depends on the user's needs, of course. While having NetBSD and FreeBSD looks kind of useful in a number of ways (for me), the OpenBSD split is more of a "sad thing", a matter of personal differences. See their web page for their point of view. For more specifc information, you are probably better off to ask persons individually :-) [ @think.com? Wow! ] Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer - BSD User Group Hamburg BSD, Lisp and other programming info http://www.bik-gmbh.de/~cracauer