From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 19 10:08:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA04435 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:08:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from send1a.yahoomail.com (send1a.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA04425 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:08:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rgireyev@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19971219180812.29878.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com> Received: from [156.153.255.218] by send1a; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:08:12 PST Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:08:12 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev Subject: Re: FreeBSD To: 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 ---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 :-)) FreeBSD is based on original BSD code, and I just realized that you probably don't know what that means. That is OK, however, the next book you buy on UNIX should cover this. > > > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com