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
    111·
    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.

    • whoami@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      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.

      • bizdelnick
        2·
        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.

          • bizdelnick
            2·
            9 months ago

            No such ones that would make one of them unsuitable for some task that another copes with.

          • scratchandgameTiếng Việt
            1·
            9 months ago

            What the hell??

            They evolve differently. Saying *BSD is like 4.4BSD is still developed by ucb to provide a single base for all BSD.

            Michael W Lucas wrote in Absolute FreeBSD (3rd):

            Absolute BSD (No Starch Press, 2002) was my first technology book and was written when the various BSD operating system had more in common than they wanted to admit. The second edition, Absolute FreeBSD (No Starch Press, 2007), came out after the BSDs had diverged, and detailed FreeBSD’s advances in the previous five year

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Pretty much like all Debian forks. They’re all forked from Debian because of conflicts between developers / different ways of seeing things. :P