Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:37:06 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de> To: OVBNET <info@ovbnet.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bsd Message-ID: <20031118143303.J869@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <001b01c3ad43$c77d5640$5cc373d4@10.1.101.kantoor> References: <001b01c3ad43$c77d5640$5cc373d4@10.1.101.kantoor>
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, OVBNET wrote: > BSD Free BSD, what is it standing for? > > > Met vriendelijke groet, > > > Oscar van Beest BSD: Berkeley Software Distribution BSD-UNIX was the name of the flavour of UNIX developed at the University of Berkeley. FreeBSD: When porting BSD-UNIX to the i386 platform, the name FreeBSD was choosen by the members of the team for the new OS, probably because it is an open source operating system which can be used free of charge. Regards Konrad Heuer (kheuer2@gwdg.de) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany
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