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From: sja@snakemail.hut.fi (Sakari Jalovaara)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame war, but I've got to know!
Date: 20 Jul 94 21:58:58 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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In-reply-to: newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu's message of Wed, 20 Jul 1994 13:46:46 UNDEFINED

>>There are indeed two free *BSD kernel variants (NetBSD and FreeBSD;
>>386BSD is an old version, superseded by the two much improved versions.)
>
>There are three BSD kernels:  the one that comes with 386BSD (I don't care if 
>it's old, it still exists, the one that comes with NetBSD, and the one that 
>comes w/ FreeBSD.

There are many more BSD kernels; I've used BSD 4.1, BSD 4.2, BSD 4.3
and various derived systems (Ultrix, lots of different SunOS's etc.)

Pleasy try to forget the plain vanilla 386BSD.
It is to Net/FreeBSD what the Sun-1 is to SparcCenter 10.
What Linux 0.1 (or whatever) is to Linux 1.whatever.
What Model T Ford is to Ferrari 512 TR.
What the Wright brothers' first plane is to a Boeing 777.

Remotely similar; an ancestor; still might exist somewhere; mostly of
interest to historians and collectors.  Talking about 386BSD just adds
to the confusion and makes signal/noise smaller.

> That to me sounds like 3 different OS's.

Most certainly, NetBSD and FreeBSD are different OS's.  Closely related,
with partially parallel development, yes, but still different OS's.
Linux is a third different OS (or several choices of OS for different
kinds of needs, if you count different distributors' choices of utilities.)
MS-DOS is another OS.  And Macintosh System 7.  And so on.  Wonderful
freedom of choice out there!

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		"If it's not Unix it's a problem."
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