From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 26 10:51:15 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA00902 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 10:51:15 -0800 Received: from relay1.UU.NET (relay1.UU.NET [192.48.96.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA00893 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 10:51:11 -0800 Received: from equinox.shaysnet.com by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP id QQyajo15346; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 13:07:50 -0500 Received: by equinox.shaysnet.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07282; Thu, 26 Jan 95 13:04:48 EST Date: Thu, 26 Jan 95 13:04:48 EST From: abrahams@equinox.shaysnet.com (Paul Abrahams) Message-Id: <9501261804.AA07282@equinox.shaysnet.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Description of FreeBSD Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dear FreeBSD folk, Here's the paragraph I've written for the Second Edition of my book "UNIX for the Impatient" to describe FreeBSD. I'd be grateful if you could look at it and let me know if I've got anything wrong or if there's anything that needs to be added. Thanks. Paul Abrahams Reply-To: abrahams@acm.org ----------------------- ^{FreeBSD} is a derivative of ^{BSD 4.4} for the ^{i386} architecture built from the ^{BSDLite} code and based indirectly on ^{BSD/386}. It is supported by a team of volunteers. Documentation is available in the 4.4BSD Document Set (Reference \citeref{bsd44}). \query{We need a full biblio citation with exact title and publication date for that (O'Reilly, ISBN 1-56592-082-1), and also a description suitable for our Resources chapter.} Information and program files are available over the Internet from "FreeBSD.org" (questions to "questions@FreeBSD.org"). It is also available on a CD-ROM sold by, among others, Walnut Creek CD-ROM. Most of FreeBSD, unlike \linux, is governed by a Berkeley license that permits redistribution as long as the code includes a notice acknowledging the copyright of the Regents of the University of California. A few parts of FreeBSD include GNU software and are therefore covered by the GPL, however. These are kept in a different part of the source tree.