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From: downsj@threadway.teeny.org (Jason Downs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: How do NetBSD and FreeBSD differ?
Date: 17 Jun 1996 03:50:34 GMT
Organization: teeny.org: Free Software for a Free Internet
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In article <SOUVA.96Jun16153706@aibn58.astro.uni-bonn.de>,
	isouvatzis@astro.uni-bonn.de writes:
>In article <4pvg1u$3aj@news.umbc.edu> ssriva1@umbc.edu (Sandip
>Srivastava) writes:
>
>   How is NetBSD different from FreeBSD?
>
>To start with, there is NetBSD, but no FreeBSD for
>
[...machine list deleted...]

Of course, there's also OpenBSD, which is not only multi-platform (with
different architectures and better support on others), but also supports
things like the FreeBSD package system.  OpenBSD is not only superiour
technology to both of the other systems, but also easier to use by regular
people, and easier to do development with then NetBSD.

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