From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 2 15:44:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com (tan7.ncr.com [192.127.94.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AF4037B423 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 15:44:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f42Mjsd62446; Wed, 2 May 2001 15:45:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com) Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 15:45:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Chuck Rouillard To: Ember Talent Cc: Subject: Re: What is BSD In-Reply-To: <007a01c0d330$ad4d7740$07e4380a@amcity.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ember Talent wrote: > Hey there, > > Well my question is just a general one I was wondering if you could > explain in laymans terms (someone who is familar enough to keep > simple office tasks and other programs running on a Windows based > computer and knows how to munipulate files in DOS) what BSD is and > how it works? Also any tips you can give me on what Linux is, > (besides the "someone created it based off the concept of Unix so > it could be more afforadble than Unix which is so great" line) > would be appriciated. [snip] another resource: http://www.lemis.com/bsdpaper.html .cr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message