From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 16 12:33:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2548137B401 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 12:33:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mel-rto4.wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-4.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3068343E42 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 12:33:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hymette@wanadoo.fr) Received: from mel-rta7.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.61) by mel-rto4.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3DA24D3201773C8C for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 21:33:35 +0100 Received: from wanadoo.fr (81.48.75.46) by mel-rta7.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3DD3B25600152FF3 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 21:33:35 +0100 Message-ID: <3DD6ADA6.9040106@wanadoo.fr> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 21:42:14 +0100 From: hymette@wanadoo.fr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021108 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: what does "open source" mean ? References: <20021116010252.97C8937B404@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, it's a pretty basic question I'm asking but I'd like to learn more about FreeBSD and Unix systems. For example I couldn't find how to recompile just one part of the base system (say ee for instance). Also when looking at the libraries I see lots of different suffixes which do not evoque anything to me (what are .so, .h, files and so on). What is the architecture of the system, how each and every part stick on the whole ? Could anyone tell me where to find information (readable for non specialist) about this kind of questions - implying more than howto knowledge? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message