Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 05:56:53 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: John Swierk <johnnyangel02@icloud.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is bsd spelled out? Message-ID: <20170211055653.ed1cad76.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <23DDB012-0B0A-432E-A48D-75634E77D1ED@icloud.com> References: <23DDB012-0B0A-432E-A48D-75634E77D1ED@icloud.com>
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BSD is short for "Berkeley Software Distribution", an early UNIX-like operating system that was the basis of many modern descendants, such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD. The abbreviation is also used for "flavors" of those operating systems, i. e. modified, preconfigured and customized versions (for example PC-BSD, today called TrueOS, MidnightBSD, TrustedBSD). Ideas and concepts of BSD can even be found in Apple's Mac OS X. You can find more information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/explaining-bsd/ http://www.bsd.org/ Allow me a little sidenote: It is advised to write the question into the message body, not in the subject (and leave the message body basically empty). The subject line should summarize the general topic of the question. > Sent from my iPhone Even on an iPhone. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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