From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 17 0:59:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A91837B401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 00:59:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0959243E6E for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 00:59:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rehsack@liwing.de) Received: (qmail 37340 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2002 08:59:37 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 17 Nov 2002 08:59:37 -0000 Message-ID: <3DD75A7C.5000909@liwing.de> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 09:59:40 +0100 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hymette@wanadoo.fr Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: what does "open source" mean ? References: <20021116010252.97C8937B404@hub.freebsd.org> <3DD6ADA6.9040106@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: 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