From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 11:01:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF78416A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:01:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from cloudburst.umist.ac.uk (cloudburst.umist.ac.uk [130.88.119.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BBFF43FA3 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:01:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lewiz@black.lewiz.org) Received: from lh014.halls.umist.ac.uk ([130.88.163.14] helo=yellow.lewiz.org) by cloudburst.umist.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AK0FK-0001sS-NK for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:01:42 +0000 Received: from black.lewiz.org ([192.168.0.12]) by mail.lewiz.org with smtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD 4.9) id 1AK0G7-000EUW-Ux for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:02:31 +0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 89716 invoked by uid 4001); Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:01:36 -0000 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:01:36 +0000 From: Lewis Thompson To: FreeBSD-questions Message-ID: <20031112190135.GA89662@lewiz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SUOF0GtieIMvvwua" Content-Disposition: inline X-GPG-Fingerprint: 90A4 939E 3847 A3E4 8103 2A48 22DA B428 542F ED3F X-GPG-Info: http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey / horowitz.surfnet.nl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: FreeBSD Essay. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:01:45 -0000 --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hey guys, I'm a first year CS student at Manchester and I've been given the task of writing a 1,000 word essay on something computer-related. It can be pretty much anything I want (I think). I've decided FreeBSD is interesting, the OS I advocate and that I shall write about this. I am planning to write a brief history of the four BSDs, going way back in time (probably a few words on Ritchie, etc.) but then concentrate on FreeBSD. I'm really asking if anybody can suggest any particularly interesting topics that I can go away and research and then include in my essay. I guess since it's only a short essay I can't have /too/ much detail and I didn't particularly want to try and explain something /very/ complicated (although please suggest just the same ;). Somebody already suggested ``man hier'' but I'm not sure that's really technical enough, and problably not particularly specific to FreeBSD. Thanks very much -- any and all suggestions are very welcome :) -lewiz. --=20 I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |- --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/soOPItq0KFQv7T8RAiBNAJ9yoq2W9qmwva2dYNmyBoGwVIBJawCgl9B/ R1faYcCHPeUfNZRbw2712Lc= =TXym -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua--