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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:6655 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1427 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: [ANSWER] What is *BSD? Date: 09 Nov 1993 20:50:50 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 35 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Nov9155050@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <jmonroyCG7wED.77x@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: jmonroy@netcom.com's message of Tue, 9 Nov 1993 09:15:49 GMT In article <jmonroyCG7wED.77x@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: BSD386 is a commercial version of the PD (public Domain) OS selling for about $1000. No derivative of UNIX has ever been `public domain'. Some versions are `free', but there is a big difference. NETBSD is another offering sponsored by persons at Berkeley. There is only one person at Berkeley actively working on it that I know of. The other people are at different sites. NET refers to their decision to make the Operating System more "network" oriented. Not at all. `Net' refers to the fact that it's a product of the network community. FREEBSD [...]. Their intent was to continue to offer patches and assistance to the *BSD community as need for their version of *BSD, until the Jolitzs finish the new version of 386BSD. This may have been their original goal, but perhaps it is time to ask them for an update. The 0.1 release is the basis for [...], Xfree86 and numerous other packages. XFree86 is a completely separate effort, and has very little to do with the specific OS it is running on.