Subj : *BSD
To   : Francois Thunus
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Thu Jun 12 2003 05:06 am

Francois Thunus wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 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.

 FT> www.unixreview.com

 FT> The gist of the article is this:

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

Thanks,  that's the sort of info I was looking for...

Although it doesn't really touch on the differences between them,  much.

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