Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 11:39:43 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: 4.4BSDLite (was Re: BSD Strains) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0103061136130.44137-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <15012.4172.716615.331667@guru.mired.org>
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On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> 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, BS= D > > > 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. I'm not sure whether 4.4BSDLite is of historical interest only. I think there's a lot of code from 4.4BSD still important for FreeBSD & Co. What's about lots of man pages, much userland code and our famous C library libc and others? Regards Konrad Heuer Personal Bookmarks: Gesellschaft f=FCr wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH G=D6ttingen http://www.freebsd.org Am Fa=DFberg, D-37077 G=D6ttingen http://www.daemonnews.o= rg Deutschland (Germany) kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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