From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 8 21:39:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [207.204.248.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71A2A14E74 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 21:39:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost.fedde.littleton.co.us [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA11329; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 22:35:50 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199908090435.WAA11329@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Kenneth Wayne Culver Cc: BJ How , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Chris Fedde Subject: Re: Definition of FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 08 Aug 1999 11:06:11 EDT." Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 22:35:50 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kenneth, This is mis-information. The "D" stands for Distribution not Design. The Design thing came much later when a company called itself BSDI and added a bit of ambiguity. BTW, BTW sands for By The Way, RSN stands for Real Soon Now, NSA stands for No Such Agency, and TLA stands for Three Letter Abbreviation. thanks chris Kenneth Wayne Culver writes: BSD beans Berkley Software Design. They are the ones who originally made a "BSD" UNIX. FreeBSD is one flavor of a BSD UNIX (In my opinion the best, but not shared by everyone) :-) Kenneth Culver To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message __ Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message