From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 2 02:00:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1B616A418 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 02:00:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ges+lists@wingfoot.org) Received: from wingfoot.org (caduceus.wingfoot.org [64.32.179.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E8A513C478 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 02:00:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ges+lists@wingfoot.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD271F4407; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 20:37:22 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at wingfoot.org Received: from wingfoot.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (wingfoot.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10042) with ESMTP id ZmT-urUyPRfs; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 20:37:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from Sandal.local (ool-4353640b.dyn.optonline.net [67.83.100.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33C541F4404; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 20:37:07 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <47A3C942.4020100@wingfoot.org> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:37:06 -0500 From: Glenn Sieb User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: KAYVEN RIESE References: <200802012123.m11LNV3s061230@lurza.secnetix.de> <1201904427.7535.2.camel@Caffiend.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Allen , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:00:48 -0000 KAYVEN RIESE wrote: > > > On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Allen wrote: >> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:23 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: >>> KAYVEN RIESE wrote: > >> I thought it was neat, my first FreeBSD release was 4.0 from the >> Powerpak :) >> >> I love how FreeBSD does things like this for historical reasons, I love >> reading about the History, which is why I bought that DVD "20 years of >> Berkeley UNIX" with Marshall. Great DVD and very good if you're a UNIX >> history buff. > > sounds like a neat vid. where'd you get it? > The video is great! Lots of cool history, and fun facts about BSD! Marshall sells it on his website, and Amazon sells it as well. https://www.mckusick.com/history/videoorderform.html http://www.amazon.com/History-of-BSD-Software/dp/B000KJTCIW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1201916085&sr=8-3 Best, --Glenn