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On Mon, 5 Feb 1996, Rick wrote:

> What is the difference between Freebsd and BSDI?  Are you both the same
company? 

Um, no.  :-)

BSDi is commercial, FreeBSD is, well, free.  They are from the same 
code base (4.4) and are generally compatible.  I don't have specific 
differences but they are pretty close.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major