Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 13:09:42 -0500 From: Bob Johnson <bob@eng.ufl.edu> To: mgranich@yahoo.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [none] == Info about History of FreeBSD Message-ID: <3A843266.D02AC986@eng.ufl.edu>
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> > Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 18:26:29 -0800 (PST) > From: Marion Granich <mgranich@yahoo.com> > Subject: [none] > You are FAR, FAR more likely to get a useful response to your question if you include a meaningful subject line. There are so many questions posted to this list that many participants only read messages with subject lines they think they can help with. So I added one for you. > To Whom it May Concern: > > I am looking for any information about the history and > technical features of free-BSD other than Other than > the free-BSD web site. > > Do you know of any journal articles, books, or > newspaper articles where free-BSD has been > highlighted? Researched? Compared? > The history of the BSD operating system up to approximately the time when the FreeBSD Project was established is given in Chapter 1 of "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System" by McKusick, Bostic, Karels, and Quarterman, Addison Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-54979-4. It provides more technical information than most such histories, so it is a good place to start if you are comparing operating systems and not just discussing the politics of open source software. The founding of the FreeBSD project, the AT&T Unix lawsuits, etc. are documented in some on-line resources, but I don't have pointers to them. > The information will be included in a research paper > being written by students at the University of > Washington. The paper's focus will be comparison of > operating systems. > > Thank you > > M Anthony Granich > Good luck! - Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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