Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 23:03:30 -0600 From: "Tyler K McGeorge" <treznor@sunflower.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Message-ID: <002401c06b0b$5ccb1800$103b7c18@treznor> References: <000601c06a67$72a0f220$1703a8c0@nirmitee> <000f01c06a68$137bd700$103b7c18@treznor> <20001221115427.A52062@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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I appologize for my ignorance. I'm still learning. :P I've only been on the Unix scene for six months. :-( But I try soooo hard. :-P ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Tyler K McGeorge <treznor@sunflower.com> Cc: Mr. Makarand Kulkarni <naveenpchandra@hotmail.com>; <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 7:24 PM Subject: Re: > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > > Please don't write one line per paragraph. > > On Wednesday, 20 December 2000 at 3:34:39 -0600, Tyler K McGeorge wrote: > > On Tuesday, December 19, 2000 2:24 AM, Mr. Makarand Kulkarni wrote: > >> Sir i want to know what is the meaning of FreeBSD, please let me > >> know its fullform > > > > University of California at Berkeley at one point in time bought the > > rights to work on UNIX from Bell Systems back in 1978. > > More like 1974/1975. > > > They shortly thereafter forged their own variant of UNIX which they > > called BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution). > > The original BSD was released in 1977 and contained no kernel code. > > > Soon after came 2BSD (which shipped 75 copie, as opposed to the 30 > > shipped of BSD.) 2.8.1BSD gave way to many enhancements, and is more > > important than 3BSD in that aspect. > > 2BSD, which is being developed today, only runs on PDP-11s. 3BSD ran > on VAX, and was the first UNIX with virtual memory. I can't think of > anything in 2BSD which would rival that in importance. > > > 4BSD was released in 1980, 4.1BSD in 1981 (which has revisions made > > between 82 and 83), 4.2 in 83, > > 4.3BSD in June 1986. > > > and finally 4.4BSD in 93. (I think some of those dates are > > inaccurate, but I only have one source on this at the moment.)) > > The year is right. For more details, look at > /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree. > > > After 4.4BSD, UCB was forced to become BSDI, which is now a major > > non-free Unix. > > This is not correct. BSDI was formed in 1981 by some ex-CSRG people. > CSRG closed down in 1994, I think. BSDI make BSD/OS. > > > Using 4.4BSD, there have been multiple offspring. OpenBSD, NetBSD, > > FreeBSD and BSD Lite. > > NetBSD and FreeBSD originally started on a 4.3BSD Net/2 base. > > > Open referring to Open source, Net referring to Networking based and > > Free being without cost. > > The names are relatively irrelevant. The term "OpenBSD" was coined > before the term "Open source", so your derivation is impossible. All > three are free open source operating systems with networking. > > > BSD Lite is a small version of BSD (never really had much experience > > with anything but FBSD.) > > 4.4BSD contains AT&T code. You need a UNIX source license (now > available for free from SCO) to get it. 4.4BSD-Lite was an incomplete > operating system created by removing the AT&T code from 4.4BSD. It > was the base for FreeBSD 2.0 and NetBSD 1.0. > > > And if the rumors I've heard have any validity, I hear FBSD 5.0 is > > planning on united OBSD, NBSD and FBSD. Yay! > > The rumours you have heard have no validity whatsoever. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the > original text. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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