From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 29 18:32:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk-systems.com (hawk-systems.com [161.58.152.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A6037B401 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 18:32:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@hawk-systems.com) Received: from WS1 (ws1.nexusinternetsolutions.net [204.50.158.15]) by hawk-systems.com (8.11.2) id f7U1WZh52780; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 19:32:35 -0600 (MDT) From: dave@hawk-systems.com (Dave) To: "Len Conrad" , Subject: RE: BSD Stand For Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 21:30:22 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010829180006.03325228@mail.Go2France.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal 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. ALAMEDA, Calif., April 4, 2001 - Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for connected smart devices, today announced a definitive agreement to purchase the software assets of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDi), the world?s first commercial supplier of BSD UNIX, an advanced operating system (OS) for the Internet. Under the agreement, Wind River will purchase the commercial version of the BSD UNIX-based OS (BSD/OST) and development tools. Wind River will also support FreeBSD, a collaborative open source development effort, to advance BSD technologies. Financial details will not be disclosed. Wind River expects to close this transaction by late April 2001. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message