From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 29 18: 1:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45EBB37B403 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 18:01:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 4F56616B1E for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 03:01:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from IBM-HIRXKN66F0W.Go2France.com [12.64.25.253] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A2C0A2A60070; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 03:11:28 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010829180006.03325228@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 18:01:19 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: RE: BSD Stand For In-Reply-To: References: <412001832923916960@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Berkley Software Design, I am sure this has to be in the faq and a million >other places wrong, go read the faq and million other places. ---------------------------- FROM: Greg Lehey DATE: 04/27/1998 00:28:51 SUBJECT: RE: What does BSD stand for? On Thu, 23 April 1998 at 21:21:59 +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smrgrav wrote: > "Dr. Buchacher Anton" <> writes: >> My question is simple: What does BSD stand for? >> Thanks a lot. > > Depending on whom you ask, "Berkely Standard Distribution" or "Berkely > Software Distribution". The latter is canonical AFAIK. This last went past just a couple of days ago. "Berkeley Software Distribution". All else is just plain wrong. Greg ---------------- Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message