>>I am involved in planning the beginnings of an ISP. We plan to do 
>>web/ftp/streaming media/transactions/remote storage/etc....
>>
>>I am trying to understand the differences between FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSD 
>>Lite, OpenBSD, etc. Any info that can be provided would be helpful.
>
>in short.  the similarities:
>
> * netbsd, freebsd, and openbsd are all descended from bsd/386.

ahem!  what i should have said was 386bsd here, not bsd/386.  386bsd
was the free version of bsd whence {net,free,open}bsd sprang, whereas
bsd/386 is the ancestor of the commercial bsd product called bsd/os.

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