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Date:      Fri, 19 Dec 1997 07:56:58 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
To:        dgraham@cyberus.ca (Dennis Graham)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199712191356.HAA13310@horton.iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <01BD0C58.2E2D0680.dgraham@cyberus.ca> from Dennis Graham at "Dec 15, 97 08:15:43 am"

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In a previous message, Dennis Graham said:
> I wish to learn Unix and just started to my quest for information.
> 
> What does BSD stand for?  Is FreeBSD based on Linux?
Berkeley Software Distribution. As in UCB. 
FreeBSD is based on the last release from Berkeley, 4.4.



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If you make every game a life-and-death proposition, you're going to
have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
        -- Dean Smith, North Carolina University basketball coach



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