Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 14:13:32 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> To: abrahams@equinox.shaysnet.com (Paul Abrahams) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Description of FreeBSD Message-ID: <11902.791158412@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Jan 95 13:04:48 EST." <9501261804.AA07282@equinox.shaysnet.com>
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Hello Paul,
Rather than make confusing annotations, I'll simply re-write some of
the text and let you deduce the changes (and decide whether or not you
want them). Fair enough?
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^{FreeBSD} is a derivative of ^{4.4 BSD Lite} for the ^{Intel}
(^{i386/i486/Pentium}) architecture built from the ^{4.4 BSD Lite}
release from the ^{Computer Systems Research Group} (^{CSRG}) at
the ^{University of California, Berkeley}. It is supported by an
international team of volunteers.
Documentation is available in the 4.4BSD Document Set (Reference \citeref{bsd 44}).
\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 complete distributions are available over the Internet from
"ftp.FreeBSD.org", with information also available from "info@FreeBSD.org"
(general questions to "questions@FreeBSD.org").
It is also available on CD-ROM sold by, among others, Walnut Creek
CD-ROM (send mail to "info@cdrom.com").
Most of FreeBSD, unlike \linux, is governed by a Berkeley-style license
that permits redistribution for both private and commercial purposes
as long as the code includes a notice acknowledging the copyright of
the Regents of the University of California and the FreeBSD Project.
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.
Thanks!
Jordan
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