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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2799 comp.os.linux.misc:20192 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!news.moneng.mei.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!news.funet.fi!nntp.hut.fi!nntp!sja 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 Lines: 32 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <SJA.94Jul20235858@gamma.hut.fi> References: <mrg.774688509@dynamo> <newcombe.379.0044F34E@aa.csc.peachnet.edu> <SJA.94Jul20182426@gamma.hut.fi> <newcombe.383.012B356B@aa.csc.peachnet.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gamma.hut.fi 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386BSD is an old version, superseded by the two much improved versions.)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! ++ "If it's not Unix it's a problem." ++sja