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

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

    • scratchandgame@lemmy.mlTiếng 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