From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 9 6:55:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8E59151D5 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 06:55:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (root@rac1.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.141]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA04873; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 09:53:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA19786; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 09:53:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA19782; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 09:53:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac1.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 09:53:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Chris Fedde Cc: BJ How , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Definition of FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199908090435.WAA11329@fedde.littleton.co.us> 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 > 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. Well, I have heard it both ways, and have read it as Design in many major UNIX books. I have also seen it as Distribution. When I wrote the mail, I just decided to say Design randomly since I didn't know that it mattered (if books say it's both, then I don't argue). Kenneth Culver To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message