From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 13 07:07:44 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 911A016A4CE for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:07:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from priv-edtnes56.telusplanet.net (defout.telus.net [199.185.220.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B1B043FBD for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:07:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from viktorlazlo@telus.net) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (really [66.183.123.52]) by priv-edtnes56.telusplanet.netESMTP <20031113150743.KBLE16280.priv-edtnes56.telusplanet.net@[192.168.1.101]>; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:07:43 -0700 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:07:49 -0800 (PST) From: Viktor Lazlo X-X-Sender: viktorlazlo@d66-183-123-52.bchsia.telus.net To: Lewis Thompson In-Reply-To: <20031112190135.GA89662@lewiz.org> Message-ID: <20031113065505.Q3617@d66-183-123-52.bchsia.telus.net> References: <20031112190135.GA89662@lewiz.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: 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: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:07:44 -0000 On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Lewis Thompson wrote: > 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. 1000 words is awfully short to cover such a general topic in any detail--a few sentences on each would use up that much space easily. A couple of alternatives I can think of would be: to use FreeBSD as representative of the BSD's in general and focus on open source technology and describe some of the advantages and disadvantages compared to Windows; or what makes the BSD's different from Linux, since most people who aren't familiar with PC-unices will probably have at least heard of Linux and are likely to consider FreeBSD to be the same thing, more or less. Cheers, Viktor