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From: kaleb@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux
Date: 11 Nov 93 22:06:05 GMT
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steveo@beyond.demon.co.uk (steveo) writes:

>	I have been following this thread with some perplexed interest,
>can somebody please identify all these BSD variants for me, so far
>I've seen NetBSD, 386BSD, BSD386 FreeBSD with various version numbers, 
>and I'm confused. What are they all, which if any are free and under
>what sort of terms?

                      Net/2  UC Berkeley
                       /\
          BSDI's BSD386  386BSD by Jolitz (0.1)
                           /\
               (0.9) NetBSD  FreeBSD (1.0)


BSDI's BSD386 is a commercial product, i.e. it costs $$$.

All others are free of charge. Check archie, WWW, or gopher for ftp archive
locations near you.

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Kaleb Keithley