Subject: Re: NetBSD and OpenBSD???
To: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/05/1999 00:01:11
Grant Stockly wrote:
> I've been wondering for a while...why are OpenBSD and NetBSD (and their
> kernals) so much alike?
> 
> Was the NetBSD mac portion of the kernel taken and used in OpenBSD?
> 
> They even distribute the NetBSD Installer/Booter on their site.  :)
> 
> Whats the story with this?

OpenBSD split from NetBSD about 5 or 6 years ago, I believe.  They haven't
diverged too terribly much, at least in the kernel, anyway.  The
mac68k portion of the OpenBSD kernel is probably quite similar to that of
the NetBSD kernel.  That pretty much accounts for the similarities.

Later.

Colin