Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:42:59 +0000 (UTC) From: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r40722 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq Message-ID: <201301230242.r0N2gxer016965@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: eadler Date: Wed Jan 23 02:42:58 2013 New Revision: 40722 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40722 Log: List our friends and relatives. Submitted by: Alex Weber <alexwebr@gmail.com> Approved by: bcr (mentor) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Tue Jan 22 17:36:24 2013 (r40721) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Wed Jan 23 02:42:58 2013 (r40722) @@ -309,7 +309,37 @@ differences between the various projects, called <ulink url="http://www.freebsdworld.gr/freebsd/bsd-family-tree.html">The BSD Family Tree</ulink> - which goes a fair way to answering this question.</para> + which goes a fair way to answering this question. + Some of the information is out of date, but the history + portion in particular remains accurate.</para> + + <para>Most of the BSDs share patches and code, even today. + All of the BSDs have common ancestry.</para> + + <para>The design goals of &os; are described in + <xref linkend="FreeBSD-goals"/>, above. The design goals + of the other most popular BSDs may be summarized as + follows:</para> + + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>OpenBSD aims for operating system security above + all else. The OpenBSD team wrote &man.ssh.1; and + &man.pf.4;, which have both been ported to &os;.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>NetBSD aims to be easily ported to other hardware + platforms.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>DragonFlyBSD is a fork of &os; 4.8 that has + since developed many interesting features of its own, + including the HAMMER file system and support for + user-mode <quote>vkernels</quote>.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> </answer> </qandaentry>
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