From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 31 02:24:59 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA07107 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 02:24:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA07102 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 02:24:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.80]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA4E35; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:24:56 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <36B365F3.8493D504@home.com> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:33:36 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Jessie Subject: RE: Question Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30-Jan-99 Jessie wrote: > Ok, I'm not really sure what this FreeBSD is exactly. (What is it?) > (In case you're wondering, I got to your page by a link.) And if it's > titled FreeBSD, is it free? I guess you didn't get linked to the frontpage. Go to http://www.freebsd.org and read up on what FreeBSD is. To cut it short: It's a BSD 4.4 Lite/2 derived free operating system (read Unix), as in that the sources are free to get. They do have copyrights on them that follow the BSD-style copyright. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven It's a Dance of Energy, asmodai(at)wxs.nl when the Mind goes Binary... Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message