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> What mean BSD in FreeBSD name?

Berkeley Software Distribution.  This was a distribution of a modified ATT
Unix that came out of University of California at Berkeley in the mid to
late 1970s.

For a family tree that will show how BSD is related to ATT Unix see :

http://www.levenez.com/unix/

 - Mike