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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!eunet.no!nuug!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4-lite? Date: 06 Jul 1994 12:29:39 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 30 Message-ID: <JKH.94Jul6122939@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <VIXIE.94Jun20091941@office.home.vix.com> <2u9jjh$32q@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <VIXIE.94Jun23175843@office.home.vix.com> <1994Jul6.050857.8410@comserv.itri.org.tw> <jwshin.773477829@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> <2vdonjINNs4q@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> <jwshin.773491683@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: jwshin@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU's message of 6 Jul 94 10:48:03 GMT In article <jwshin.773491683@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> jwshin@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Jinwoo Shin) writes: 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. FreeBSD and NetBSD diverged from 386BSD, though so much so that they're both easily their own distributions now, with very little relation left to 386BSD (both ideologically and in the codebase). 386BSD seems to have died from lack of support, and over 2 years have gone by without much in the way of an update (rumors have a 386BSD 1.0 CD being released, but it's apparently not much more than a repackaging of the original bits). 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 4.4Lite does NOT support the 386, that tree doesn't even compile! Have you even tried? A lot of work is required to bring 4.4Lite up to the status of an actual runnable OS, and this is what FreeBSD and NetBSD are both engaged in doing. As for "which is best", you'll have to try both for yourself and come to your own conclusions. I cannot answer that question for you. Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Clams are your friends