Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 03:34:39 -0600 From: "Tyler K McGeorge" <treznor@sunflower.com> To: "Mr. Makarand Kulkarni" <naveenpchandra@hotmail.com>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Message-ID: <000f01c06a68$137bd700$103b7c18@treznor> References: <000601c06a67$72a0f220$1703a8c0@nirmitee>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000C_01C06A35.C896A260 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable University of California at Berkeley at one point in time bought the = rights to work on UNIX from Bell Systems back in 1978. They shortly = thereafter forged their own variant of UNIX which they called BSD = (Berkeley Software Distribution). Soon after came 2BSD (which shipped 75 = copie, as opposed to the 30 shipped of BSD.) 2.8.1BSD gave way to many = enhancements, and is more important than 3BSD in that aspect.=20 4BSD was released in 1980, 4.1BSD in 1981 (which has revisions made = between 82 and 83), 4.2 in 83, and finally 4.4BSD in 93. (I think some = of those dates are inaccurate, but I only have one source on this at the = moment.)) After 4.4BSD, UCB was forced to become BSDI, which is now a = major non-free Unix. Using 4.4BSD, there have been multiple offspring. = OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and BSD Lite. Open referring to Open source, = Net referring to Networking based and Free being without cost. BSD Lite = is a small version of BSD (never really had much experience with = anything but FBSD.) And if the rumors I've heard have any validity, I hear FBSD 5.0 is = planning on united OBSD, NBSD and FBSD. Yay! ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Mr. Makarand Kulkarni=20 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG=20 Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 2:24 AM Sir i want to know what is the meaning of FreeBSD, please let me know = its fullform regards naveen ------=_NextPart_000_000C_01C06A35.C896A260 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>University of California at = Berkeley at one=20 point in time bought the rights to work on UNIX from Bell Systems back = in 1978.=20 They shortly thereafter forged their own variant of UNIX which they = called BSD=20 (Berkeley Software Distribution). Soon after came 2BSD (which shipped 75 = copie,=20 as opposed to the 30 shipped of BSD.) 2.8.1BSD gave way to many = enhancements,=20 and is more important than 3BSD in that aspect. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>4BSD was released in 1980, 4.1BSD in = 1981 (which=20 has revisions made between 82 and 83), 4.2 in 83, and finally 4.4BSD in = 93. (I=20 think some of those dates are inaccurate, but I only have one source on = this at=20 the moment.)) After 4.4BSD, UCB was forced to become BSDI, which is now = a major=20 non-free Unix. Using 4.4BSD, there have been multiple offspring. = OpenBSD,=20 NetBSD, FreeBSD and BSD Lite. Open referring to Open source, Net = referring to=20 Networking based and Free being without cost. BSD Lite is a small = version of BSD=20 (never really had much experience with anything but FBSD.)</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>And if the rumors I've heard have any = validity, I=20 hear FBSD 5.0 is planning on united OBSD, NBSD and FBSD. = Yay!</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE=20 style=3D"BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV=20 style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B>=20 <A href=3D"mailto:naveenpchandra@hotmail.com"=20 title=3Dnaveenpchandra@hotmail.com>Mr. Makarand Kulkarni</A> </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20 href=3D"mailto:freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG"=20 = title=3Dfreebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG</A> = </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 19, = 2000 2:24=20 AM</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Sir i want to know what is the = meaning of=20 FreeBSD, please let me know its fullform</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>regards</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial = size=3D2>naveen</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_000C_01C06A35.C896A260-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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