From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 21 00:05:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA16480 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 00:05:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from send1b.yahoomail.com (send1b.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA16466 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 00:04:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rgireyev@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19971221080440.22588.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> Received: from [199.174.246.164] by send1b; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 00:04:40 PST Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 00:04:40 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev Subject: Re: FreeBSD To: David Kelly Cc: Dennis Graham , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Oh Boy! An egg on my face. I absolutely did not mean to say that. How embaracing. This is a second time this month that someone commits a terrible mistyping with regards to Linux and then has to publicly apologize. Thanks for catching that, David. Rudy. ---David Kelly wrote: > > Rudy Gireyev writes: > > ---Dennis Graham wrote: > > > > > > I wish to learn Unix and just started to my quest for information. > > > > > > What does BSD stand for? > > > > Berkley Software Distribution (Born in University of Berkley, CA) > > > > Is FreeBSD based on Linux? > > > > NO. Linux is based on Dr. Tannenbaum example OS called Minix that > > Mr Linus Torvalds took and evolved into a fool blown OS > > (with some help :-)) > > A "*fool* blown OS" ??? :-) > Freudian slip? > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com