What’s the point of it?

OpenBSD = Security

FreeBSD = The main UNIX-like

NetBSD = ???

Based on the name of have assumed it’s be used in things like network appliances but in 20 years I’ve never seen a single device use it.

  • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    There’s no specific point in any of *BSD. They all are general purpose OSes. NetBSD forked from FreeBSD, OpenBSD forked from NetBSD. Conflicts between developers were main reasons for that.

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      9 months ago

      NetBSD didn’t fork from Free iirc. They took 4.4 BSD and started developing it themselves of the net.

      Theo de Raadt was kicked out of netbsd, and started OpenBSD.

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        9 months ago

        Yes, you are right. Both FreeBSD and NetBSD are based on earlier BSD systems. Anyway there are no fundamental differences between them.