svn commit: r40722 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
Eitan Adler
eadler at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 23 02:42:59 UTC 2013
Author: eadler
Date: Wed Jan 23 02:42:58 2013
New Revision: 40722
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40722
Log:
List our friends and relatives.
Submitted by: Alex Weber <alexwebr at gmail.com>
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Tue Jan 22 17:36:24 2013 (r40721)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Wed Jan 23 02:42:58 2013 (r40722)
@@ -309,7 +309,37 @@
differences between the various projects,
called <ulink
url="http://www.freebsdworld.gr/freebsd/bsd-family-tree.html">The BSD Family Tree</ulink>
- which goes a fair way to answering this question.</para>
+ which goes a fair way to answering this question.
+ Some of the information is out of date, but the history
+ portion in particular remains accurate.</para>
+
+ <para>Most of the BSDs share patches and code, even today.
+ All of the BSDs have common ancestry.</para>
+
+ <para>The design goals of &os; are described in
+ <xref linkend="FreeBSD-goals"/>, above. The design goals
+ of the other most popular BSDs may be summarized as
+ follows:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>OpenBSD aims for operating system security above
+ all else. The OpenBSD team wrote &man.ssh.1; and
+ &man.pf.4;, which have both been ported to &os;.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>NetBSD aims to be easily ported to other hardware
+ platforms.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>DragonFlyBSD is a fork of &os; 4.8 that has
+ since developed many interesting features of its own,
+ including the HAMMER file system and support for
+ user-mode <quote>vkernels</quote>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
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