From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 2:56:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.98.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE94137B699 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:56:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0MAuDa21276; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:56:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:56:13 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: Julien Pham Cc: Subject: Re: What means FreeBSD ? In-Reply-To: <006201c08455$6e61e590$a000a8bf@julien> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message