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Date:      Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:08:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com>
To:        Dennis Graham <dgraham@cyberus.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <19971219180812.29878.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com>

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---Dennis Graham <dgraham@cyberus.ca> wrote:
>
> I wish to learn Unix and just started to my quest for information.
> 
> What does BSD stand for?

Berkley Software Distribution (Born in University of Berkley, CA)

  Is FreeBSD based on Linux?

NO. Linux is based on Dr. Tannenbaum example OS called Minix that 
Mr Linus Torvalds took and evolved into a fool blown OS 
(with some help :-))
FreeBSD is based on original BSD code, and I just realized that you
probably don't know what that means. That is OK, however, the next
book you buy on UNIX should cover this.

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