Hi all,

I have a very simple question, to which the answer has been
frustratingly elusive on the world-wide web.

At work i have used primarily Digital UNIX 4.0 and Debian Linux, with
the occasional addition of SVR4.  Of these, decosf has been by far the
sexiest OS.  I would love to run a UNIX (clone) at home, but up till now
i've only considered spending ridiculous amounts of money on an Alpha
running decosf, a Sparc running Solaris or an SGI running IRIX.  This
has been quite simply because for a long time i figured all the open
source UNIX clones were teeming with Gnu software.  After reading
through some of the BSD pages today, i'm wondering if i may have been
mistaken.

My simple question is this: does NetBSD (or any BSD, for that matter)
have its own utilities, or is it mostly a separately-licensed kernel
with lots of Gnu utilities a la Linux?  By this i mean, does it have
"traditional" tar, compress, bc/dc, cc, ls, mv, rm, sh, cat, awk, grep,
ed, ex/vi, sed etc. without all the Gnu "enhancements"?

Thanks for any help,
Alison

(Okay, just for completeness' sake: i find NetBSD the most attractive
of the three open source BSDs because i like the cross-platform ideals -
it's just a shame the JDK is lagging behind Solaris and win32.)