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From: dleeds@MCS.COM (Daniel Leeds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: BSDI? How does this fit in?
Date: 1 Jun 1994 21:21:14 -0500
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Adam Eberbach (adam@arcadia.cs.rmit.EDU.AU) wrote:
: I'm looking for some background on BSDI. I have at present a sale-or-return
: CDROM containing BSDI 1.1, and a skinny manual. This is expensive compared
: to Free BSD :)

: Can anyone tell me what relation BSDI has to the free product? Apart from
: telephone support can anyone tell me why this might be a better product?

BSDI is the commercial version of 4.4 BSD lite, something like $1000US 
gets you source and binaries...