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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.dell.com!tadpole.com!uunet!news.cygnus.com!kithrup.com!sef From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: BSDI/FreeBSD Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Message-ID: <CwrAzs.BGH@kithrup.com> References: <5f4_9409260326@ima.infomail.com> <366s4l$jqa@bosnia.pop.psu.edu> <Cwr5yM.2A4@filetek.com> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 21:43:03 GMT Lines: 19 In article <Cwr5yM.2A4@filetek.com>, Jan Morales <jan@filetek.com> wrote: >[So that this posting is not 100% content-free, I'll just say that > they're not the same. One, FreeBSD, is free, as its name implies, > while the other, BSDI, is a commercial offering.] FreeBSD is a freely available operating system; versions 1.x were based on the Net/2 distribution from UC Berkeley; the currently-in-development 2.0 version is based on the 4.4-Lite UCB distribution. BSDi (the 'i' is silent ;)) currently offers BSD/386, v1.1 I believe. This is also based on the Net/2 distribution, and is not free. In addition, due to part of their settlement with USL, as well as NDA's signed with other companies, not all of the sources are included with their product. (But you get an OS that people are paid to make sure works well. With FreeBSD, you get an OS that some people have decided to work on, usually in their 'spare' time, and they don't get paid for how well it works.) BSDi will, in the future, be offering ports to other architectures; the SPARC is the most notable.