Subj : *BSD
To   : Roy J. Tellason
From : Francois Thunus
Date : Wed Jun 11 2003 07:54 pm

 Hello !

29 May 03 20:01, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Francois Thunus:

*BSD

 RJT>Review them all?  I don't know if there's enough time for that sort
 RJT> of  thing...

 FT>> They are all neck to neck with features, even though they remain
 FT>> focused on what made them start in the first place. I remember
 FT>> reading a good article describing the strong points of each of
 FT>> them, but of course I can't find the url right now.

www.unixreview.com

The gist of the article is this:

FreeBSD comes from 386BSD, which was the project to make the BSD code run on 
386+ intel machines. NetBSD is an split of freeBSD, whith the accent on 
portability. OpenBSD is an offshoot of NetBSD, which focuses on security 
issues.
According to the reviewer, FreeBSD is the one with the easiest installer and 
the most available packages (note: roughly same as Debian). Mention is also 
made of PicoBSD, which is a one-floppy project available in 4 different flavors 
(router/dialup/don't remember the rest). However, PicoBSD hasn't been updated 
in a couple of years.

Have fun

 Francois Thunus

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