Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 09:59:40 +0100 From: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> To: hymette@wanadoo.fr Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: what does "open source" mean ? Message-ID: <3DD75A7C.5000909@liwing.de> References: <20021116010252.97C8937B404@hub.freebsd.org> <3DD6ADA6.9040106@wanadoo.fr>
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hymette@wanadoo.fr wrote: > hi, > > it's a pretty basic question I'm asking but I'd like to learn more about > FreeBSD and Unix systems. For example I couldn't find how to recompile > just one part of the base system (say ee for instance). Also when > looking at the libraries I see lots of different suffixes which do not > evoque anything to me (what are .so, .h, files and so on). What is the > architecture of the system, how each and every part stick on the whole ? > Could anyone tell me where to find information (readable for non > specialist) about this kind of questions - implying more than howto > knowledge? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > For the first I think it's recommented reading the FreeBSD handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ This is - even if you know it all - it's important to know the nomenclature which is used here. At next it may useful to read "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System": http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/design-44bsd/ If this doesn't help at all, please ask again. Cheers, Jens -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack L W W W L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services L i W W W W i n n g g LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstraße 2 gggg 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: <rehsack@liwing.de> Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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