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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do NetBSD and FreeBSD differ? Date: 22 Jun 1996 12:24:46 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4qgome$q31@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4q1hai$9ev@news.umbc.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E ssriva1@umbc.edu (Sandip Srivastava) wrote: > What's different about NetBSD from FreeBSD. Is the only difference that > NetBSD is mult-platform where as FreeBSD is only for the i386, or are > there other differences as well. That's at least the most obvious difference. It basically boils down what the focus of both groups is: good multi-platform support for NetBSD vs. a system that is easy to install, has all whistles and bells prepackaged, but concentrates on the PeeCee platform for FreeBSD. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)