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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!actcsiro!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!wabbit.its.uow.edu.au!news.ci.com.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: 2 questions about bsd Date: 23 Apr 1996 10:41:08 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH Dresden Lines: 48 Message-ID: <4lic44$4f@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <4lh19o$22m@alpha.comsource.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 jrjones@alpha.comsource.net (Jim Jones) writes: >I am looking for a good 4mm dat tape to put on a bsdi box and I am >looking for some suggestions. I would like one that does some compression >so that I can get 8mb if possible on 120m tapes. You should ask the BSDi support (after all, you've paid for it), or in the newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc. >My second question, could some one point me to a FAQ that explains the >difference between bsd, bsdi, and netbsd etc. BSD stands for Berkeley System Distribution. It's the name of a Unix descendant that has been developed based on UNIX 6th edition (V6), later on UNIX V7, and on UNIX/32V. (The name UNIX might be a trademark in some countries, i don't think it is in my country.) The 4.2BSD and later 4.3BSD became rather famous, mostly for its sample implementation of the IP network protocol layers. Several commercial Unix systems are based on 4.2BSD (Ultrix, SunOS 4). 4.4BSD seems to be the final official release before the Computer Science and Research Group (CSRG) gave up the further development of BSD. BSDi stands for Berkeley Systems Design, Incorporated. They are marketing a BSD system initially based on the Net-2 release of BSD (called BSD/386), not based on 4.4BSD-Lite (called BSD/OS). It is a commercial system, although you can get a source-code license, too. 386BSD is a freeware system, also based on BSD Net-2. It was mainly intended for research purposes, but the Internet community picked it up and had much demand for a production-quality freeware BSD. This finally caused two independent groups of people starting their offspring projects from 386BSD, they are NetBSD and FreeBSD. (Much later, OpenBSD descended from NetBSD, mainly out of some personal quarrels.) Both these systems are developed and maintained rather independently, where NetBSD basically concentrates on multiplatform support, while FreeBSD took the route to provide an easy to install BSD-based Unix with regular releases that are guaranteed to be published on CD-ROM. By now, FreeBSD is only available for the i[3456]86 platforms. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j