[1220] in netbsd-help mailing list archive
Re: netbsd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J Williams)
Fri Feb 6 11:29:00 1998
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 11:27:34 -0500
From: Nathan J Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
To: "Brouwer, Jeffery" <Jeffery_Brouwer@jdedwards.com>
Cc: "'netbsd-help@mit.edu'" <netbsd-help@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: "[1219] in netbsd-help mailing list archive"
I would like to have a free unix version on my workstation.
I am tempted to download NetBSD from http://www.netbsd.org, since that
seems to be what you are using as well.
Is this the case, is NetBSD/Athena an MIT customized version of NetBSD,
or is it NetBSD standard?
NetBSD/Athena is local system based on NetBSD which layers
Athena programs on top of the base NetBSD distribution. It's not
a modification to the base operating system.
Unless you're familiar with the Athena system at MIT and want
that functionality, you probably don't want NetBSD/Athena, and there
are some licensing issues that mean that there are parts of it we
couldn't let you have.
It sounds like you want a normal NetBSD distribution.
- Nathan
