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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. NetBSD vs. BSDI
In-Reply-To: forrie@visgraph.UUCP's message of 19 Sep 1993 11: 06:16 -0500
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>BSDI seems to be a very 'robust' and stable system.  A friend of mine

Yep.

>NetBSD (where can you get it?), I understand, is more 4.4BSD, and growing.

sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu

>FreeBSD, from what I understand, is basically 386BSD, and doesn't
>get a lot of development/support, and is more of a hacker's OS?  This is

That's really funny.  That's exactly what folks usually say about
NetBSD!  I don't think either one really deserves to be called "a
hackers OS" - we both put a lot of work into trying to ensure
stability (hell, we don't like our own boxes crashing any more than
you do!).  I think your private email contacts have no idea what
they're talking about.

FreeBSD has far fewer changes in it, that much I can say with
reasonable confidence, but neither it nor NetBSD is "basically 386BSD"
either.  We've all left 386BSD quite a bit behind!

				Jordan

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Jordan Hubbard  jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie