From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 7 18:22:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sol (cs1-gw.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.171.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0950315013 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 18:21:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from localhost (zzhang@localhost) by sol (SMI-8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA13566; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 21:10:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 21:10:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: Henrique Meira Costa Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <000901beb14a$8ca9ff40$e805e7c8@default> 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 On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Henrique Meira Costa wrote: > I'am Henrique Meira Costa and I would like to know what does the > acronym "BSD" mean. > I would like to know also what are the main diferences beetween > LINUX and FreeBSD. BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distribution. I suggest you go to the site http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html to search the mailing list archives. There have been many discussions about Linux vs. FreeBSD. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message