Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 19:06:10 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com> Cc: Dennis Graham <dgraham@cyberus.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <199712200106.TAA08732@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com> of "Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:08:12 PST." <19971219180812.29878.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com>
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Rudy Gireyev writes: > ---Dennis Graham <dgraham@cyberus.ca> 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.
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