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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:56:13 +0100 (CET)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
To:        Julien Pham <jpham@mis.mc>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: What means FreeBSD ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101221149460.21238-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <006201c08455$6e61e590$a000a8bf@julien>

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On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Julien Pham wrote:

> Free, ok, but what means BSD ?
> I really like your daemon logo... Can I find some backgrounds (wallpapers=
)
> with him ?

BSD is an abbreviation for "Berkeley Software Distribution"; BSD has been
a flavour of AT&T's UNIX developed at the Berkeley University from about
1977 till about 1995. FreeBSD (like NetBSD and OpenBSD as well as BSDi)
evolved from BSD UNIX (the last version has been 4.4BSD-Lite2 in 1995).

> And what is the best newsgroups servers for FreeBSD newsgroups ? Because =
the
> newsgroups from my ISP has only a few messages (555 for freebsd.misc and =
1
> from freebsd.announce)

I don't know many - but you may try news.gwdg.de ...

Regards

Konrad Heuer                                    Personal Bookmarks:
Gesellschaft f=FCr wissenschaftliche
   Datenverarbeitung mbH G=D6ttingen              http://www.freebsd.org
Am Fa=DFberg, D-37077 G=D6ttingen                   http://www.daemonnews.o=
rg
Deutschland (Germany)

kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de



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