From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 19 17:21:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA08936 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 17:21:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA08931 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 17:21:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (max7-197.HiWAAY.net [208.147.145.197]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA05310; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 19:21:28 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA08732; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 19:06:10 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199712200106.TAA08732@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Rudy Gireyev cc: Dennis Graham , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: David Kelly Subject: Re: FreeBSD In-reply-to: Message from Rudy Gireyev of "Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:08:12 PST." <19971219180812.29878.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 19:06:10 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.