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From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@indy.celebration.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Diff. btwn Free/NetBSD
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 13:04:44 -0500
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Jignesh Bhadaliya wrote:
> 
> Can someone plz explain the difference between NetBSD vs. FreeBSD?
> 
NetBSD is a very good OS with emphasis on multi-platform support.
FreeBSD is a very good OS with emphasis on making X86 machines
run very well.

NetBSD is interested in the things that FreeBSD can do, and FreeBSD
is interested in the things that NetBSD can do.  There is code that
originated in FreeBSD that is put in NetBSD, and vice-versa.

Both FreeBSD and NetBSD are OSes derived from 4.4Lite.

John