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From: jwshin@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Jinwoo Shin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 4.4-lite?
Date: 6 Jul 94 10:48:03 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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c9020@rrzc1a (Hubert Feyrer) writes:

>> Linux :)

>And NetBSD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really was wondering, could someone PLEASE EXPLAIN to me what the difference
between FreeBSD, NetBSD, 386BSD and BSD4.4lite is? As far as I understand it,
386BSD and BSD 4.4lite split from 4.3bsd ... 386BSD being 386 port by Jolitz.
In the announcement for 4.4lite, it has said that "386/488 ISA/EISA" 
architecture was supported ... so what is FreeBSD? Why is FreeBSD 2.0 being
based on 4.4lite when 4.4lite is already supposed to support 386? Also, is
NetBSD decendent from Net1 -> Net2 ? What is the difference between FreeBSD
and NetBSD? Is 386BSD no longer in support? Can I just get 4.4lite distribution
and install it on my 486??????
????

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Jinwoo Shin				jwshin@eecs.berkeley.edu
System Administrator			
Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center