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#! rnews 1127 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news 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 Organization: AT&T Lines: 15 Message-ID: <31F7B73C.38@indy.celebration.net> References: <4t787l$lgv@news.service.uci.edu> Reply-To: dyson@indy.celebration.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (WinNT; I) 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