[NBLUG/talk] Roundtable discussion on FreeBSD

[David]

The 3 main ones are:
FreeBSD - awesome networking capabilities, very stable
OpenBSD - very secure
NetBSD - very portable, runs on everything (even a toaster)

He was probably talking about DragonflyBSD as the forth one, which was 
branched off of FreeBSD a few years ago.  This is an experimental OS in 
that people try out new ways of doing OS level things (kernel 
scheduling, file systems, processes load balancing to name a few) the 
best of which some times are "integrated" or implemented into the "main" 
3 BSD's.

PC-BSD is a BSD focusing on ease of use, while PicoBSD is a custom-small 
image (fits on a floppy) version of FreeBSD 3.0 used for network routing.

And yes, some people consider the kernel of Mac OS X, Darwin (which is 
based on FreeBSD and Mach 3.0) to be a BSD variant.

Rick wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I think I heard Julian say that there are four *BSD variants, including 
> FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD.  I don't recall the fourth?  A quick 
> Google search turns up several additional *BSD distributions.  Does 
> anyone know which one he meant?
> 
> Thanks to all the speakers at the Roundtable discussion.  I found the 
> material to be very informative.
> 
> Rick
> 
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