Subj : *BSD
To   : Francois Thunus
From : Lawrence Garvin
Date : Fri Jun 13 2003 07:41 pm

Francois wrote to Roy at 18:54 11 Jun:

 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.

There seems to be some minor controversy over which came first, FreeBSD or 
NetBSD. According to the http://www.opensources.com website I cited earlier, 
NetBSD was actually the original creation -- intended to continue development 
of Bill Jolitz's 386/BSD distribution. NetBSD got sidetracked, though, in the 
issue of portability. As a result of /that/, FreeBSD was formed to redirect 
focus exclusively on the PC-architecture platform. As I understand the 
situation, some people were upset at the deteriorating level of support from 
the NetBSD group for the PC architecture (the original platform for 386/BSD), 
so they created a new group to focus exclusively on the 386 version.

 FT> OpenBSD is an offshoot of NetBSD, which focuses on security 
 FT> issues. According to the reviewer, FreeBSD is the one with the 
 FT> easiest installer and the most available packages (note: roughly 
 FT> same as Debian). 
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