Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 04:00:11 -0700 From: "Jeremy" <slicetech@earthlink.net> To: "Free BSD" <freebsdhelp@freebsd.org> Subject: BSD Questions Message-ID: <NEBBJIEBHCHHANIGCLFDIEDBCCAA.slicetech@earthlink.net>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C102AB.7DEC8400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Sir or Madam, I am a college student, and a beginning FreeBSD user; as one of my assignments in my English 1A class, I have chosen to write an essay, complete with interviews, on FreeBSD. I have chosen to conduct my interviews via email, and am sending this to you in the hope that you might be willing to respond with answers to my questions, and your name (first only is ok, last name if you can) and an email address so that I may use you as a reference. If you cannot participate, or even if you can, might you pass this along to one or two other people in your group so they may be a source of information as well? I have just a few questions that I have not been able to find answers to online, they are as follows: 1. What is the actual relationship between the BSD operating systems? While the original code came form the same place, I cannot seem to find out how much is still the same. 2. When was FreeBSD actually considered its own operating system, and what caused it to be split from the other BSD OS's? 3. I have heard that FreeBSD resembles the original Unix OS more than most current Unix OS's, to what extent is this true? 4. What is considered for the future of FreeBSD? While there are still la good deal of people actively developing the OS, is there a centralized source of development? 5. How closely is the development of FreeBSD still tied to UC Berkeley? 6. Who chose the devil mascot? (had to ask) 7. Last but not least, I have written a short essay on what I currently know about FreeBSD; as I am new to the OS, if anyone has the time to comment on it, or make corrections, it is included below: Essay: FreeBSD - Past, Present, and Future Over the last year I have begun using a computer operating system called FreeBSD to perform various tasks from a single computer in my home. During that year, I have learned a reasonable amount about FreeBSD, and the family of BSD operating systems in general. What I know so for is this: FreeBSD was developed during the 1990's at the University of California at Berkeley's computer science department. Originally intended to be an alternative to the trademarked Unix operating system and to the other releases of BSD, much of FreeBSD's code was still derived from the other releases of BSD and Unix. More recently, FreeBSD has become its own independent operating system; while still based on the original BSD design, it no longer suffers or shares in the successes or failures of the other operating systems. Like Unix, and the other BSD operating systems, FreeBSD is open-source; this makes it ideal for companies which need to modify it to suit their needs. Because FreeBSD is an open-source operating system, development of applications is made easier; companies are not required to license the operating system to develop programs for it. Most applications that exist in other major operating systems, namely Windows and Linux, also exist in some form for FreeBSD. In addition, FreeBSD makes use of open-source Linux code to allow many programs developed for Linux to run without modification. FreeBSD is developed by many people around the world; unlike Windows or Unix, it is not the product of large companies. While it is linked in its code to the other BSD operating systems, each new revision separates it further from its parent; however, applications developed for the other BSD operating systems are normally also developed to run on FreeBSD. This cross development of software, coupled with the open source nature of BSD, should ensure that FreeBSD will continue to be developed long into the future. For my I-Search, I intend to utilize mainly online resources. My interviews will come from those people currently developing and supporting FreeBSD on a regular basis; they will most likely be conducted via email. While there is a good deal of information in printed text about FreeBSD, online resources generally provide a much more direct source of information. Thank You for your time and consideration, Jeremy Briggs mailto://slicetech@earthlink.net mailto://jeremy_briggs@non.hp.com P.S. 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