Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 12:30:44 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: abrahams@equinox.shaysnet.com (Paul Abrahams) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Description of FreeBSD Message-ID: <199501262030.MAA00158@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Jan 95 13:04:48 EST." <9501261804.AA07282@equinox.shaysnet.com>
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>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}.
^^^^^^^
386BSD.
>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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
UC Berkeley style license
>redistribution as long as the code includes a notice acknowledging the
>copyright of the Regents of the University of California.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
copyright of the author
>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.
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