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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI vs FreeBSD
Date: 6 Feb 1996 18:48:56 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <4f6eir$odk@news.quanta.com>, Ross Walker <rsww@quanta.com> wrote:
> BSDI is different from FreeBSD.

Slightly.

> It is a commercial implementation of
> 4.4BSD while FreeBSD is a public domain implementation.

"Freely Redistributable"

> I believe that
> BSDI uses the AT&T kernel code parts and therefore those parts of the
> kernel sources cannot be distributed.

Not so.
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