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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Some of the information is out of date, but the history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;&nbsp;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>