From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 23 01:27:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA21635 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 01:27:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za (pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za [163.195.219.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA21624 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 01:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za (localhost.nanoteq.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA00685; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:24:18 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199706230824.KAA00685@pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za> To: gpantale@suffolk.lib.ny.us cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mailto:freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Jun 1997 02:23:21 -0400." <199706230623.CAA21610@bookworm.suffolk.lib.ny.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:24:18 +0200 From: "P. van Leeuwen" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Can you explain to me what freeBSD means? > Thanks > Darkfenix > > It's a free BSD unix operating system. It is very stable and can be used for various applications including anything you can do with Windows plus much much more :) And it is free !!!! Unix is _the_ original operating system and BSD is a main branch thereof which was developed at the University of California at Berkeley. DOS and Windows were both derived from a limited subset of unix. Read about it on http://www.freebsd.org/ pierre -- Pierre van Leeuwen E-mail : pvl@nanoteq.com Ph : +27 (0)12 665-1338 http://www.nanoteq.co.za