Re: freebsd is really bsd?
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:55:14 -0500 Sean Cavanaugh millenia2...@hotmail.com wrote: The best explanation I have ever seen to give people fresh to the BSD project is the following youtube clip from years ago. It traces all the way back to its origins and gives nice examples of some of the small companies that use BSD derived code in their programs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7tvI6JCXD0feature=relmfu Thanks for providing that link; I really enjoyed watching it. :-) To everyone else: if you're interested in the history of BSD, with a lighthearted, humorous and entertaining presentation, check out the above. Fun stuff! A lot of similarly entertaining and interesting links will turn up in the process as well. -- Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd is really bsd?
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net wrote: To everyone else: if you're interested in the history of BSD, with a lighthearted, humorous and entertaining presentation, check out the above. Fun stuff! A lot of similarly entertaining and interesting links will turn up in the process as well. I already told cool! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd is really bsd?
On 13/12/2011 14:46, LinuxIsOne wrote: Is freebsd simply bsd name, means it is free so they appended the word 'free' is it like this? Yes, it is really BSD: it is the direct lineal descendant of Unix code released by the University of California, Berkeley. The beginnings of the FreeBSD project were based on the 386BSD code that ultimately came out of BSD 4.3 and 4.4. See here, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_history-simple.svg Free in the sense of available to use in any way the user may see fit and without onerous licensing terms or fees -- that's implicit in the BSD part of the name[*]. Still, no harm in repeating ourselves. Besides, it was necessary to distinguish this project from NetBSD and later OpenBSD (plus various other more recent BSD variants). Cheers, Matthew [*] Although you can still be BSD, even under commercial licensing terms and closed source, but in that case, the name tends not to contain those letters. eg. SunOS (before v5), NeXTSTEP, MacOS X. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: freebsd is really bsd?
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Dec 13 09:18:00 2011 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:46:41 -0500 From: LinuxIsOne reall...@hmamail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd is really bsd? hi, Is freebsd simply bsd name, means it is free so they appended the word 'free' is it like this? Any of the '*BSD' named operating systems trace their ancestery to various software released by the C.S.R.G. at the University of California at Berkeley, under the name of a 'Berkeley Software Distributin', or BSD for short. None of the ancestor software used in this way was a complete, runnable and working working Operating System. Any 'runnable' O/S distributed by UCB/CSRG under the 'BSD' name also required a license from ATT. FreeBSD _is_ free from any licensing 'encumberments' that would prevent one from using it 'as they see fit', subject *only* to retaining certain accreditations aind copyright notices in the source code, and in any docucmentationt that accompines a 'binary'/'executable'. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd is really bsd?
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Yes, it is really BSD: it is the direct lineal descendant of Unix code released by the University of California, Berkeley. The beginnings of the FreeBSD project were based on the 386BSD code that ultimately came out of BSD 4.3 and 4.4. See here, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_history-simple.svg Free in the sense of available to use in any way the user may see fit and without onerous licensing terms or fees -- that's implicit in the BSD part of the name[*]. Still, no harm in repeating ourselves. Besides, it was necessary to distinguish this project from NetBSD and later OpenBSD (plus various other more recent BSD variants). Cheers, Matthew [*] Although you can still be BSD, even under commercial licensing terms and closed source, but in that case, the name tends not to contain those letters. eg. SunOS (before v5), NeXTSTEP, MacOS X. Oh I see. Thanks for the explanation. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd is really bsd?
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Any of the '*BSD' named operating systems trace their ancestery to various software released by the C.S.R.G. at the University of California at Berkeley, under the name of a 'Berkeley Software Distributin', or BSD for short. None of the ancestor software used in this way was a complete, runnable and working working Operating System. Any 'runnable' O/S distributed by UCB/CSRG under the 'BSD' name also required a license from ATT. FreeBSD _is_ free from any licensing 'encumberments' that would prevent one from using it 'as they see fit', subject *only* to retaining certain accreditations aind copyright notices in the source code, and in any docucmentationt that accompines a 'binary'/'executable'. Oh I see. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd is really bsd?
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Any of the '*BSD' named operating systems trace their ancestery to various software released by the C.S.R.G. at the University of California at Berkeley, under the name of a 'Berkeley Software Distributin', or BSD for short. None of the ancestor software used in this way was a complete, runnable and working working Operating System. Any 'runnable' O/S distributed by UCB/CSRG under the 'BSD' name also required a license from ATT. FreeBSD _is_ free from any licensing 'encumberments' that would prevent one from using it 'as they see fit', subject *only* to retaining certain accreditations aind copyright notices in the source code, and in any docucmentationt that accompines a 'binary'/'executable'. Oh I see. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: freebsd is really bsd?
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of LinuxIsOne Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 9:47 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd is really bsd? hi, Is freebsd simply bsd name, means it is free so they appended the word 'free' is it like this? Thanks ___ The best explanation I have ever seen to give people fresh to the BSD project is the following youtube clip from years ago. It traces all the way back to its origins and gives nice examples of some of the small companies that use BSD derived code in their programs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7tvI6JCXD0feature=relmfu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd is really bsd?
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:46 AM, LinuxIsOne reall...@hmamail.com wrote: hi, Is freebsd simply bsd name, means it is free so they appended the word 'free' is it like this? /usr/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd is really bsd?
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Sean Cavanaugh millenia2...@hotmail.com wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7tvI6JCXD0feature=relmfu Cool. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd is really bsd?
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: /usr/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree Oh Yes, thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
