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From: burgess@s069.infonet.net (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: What is FreeBSD anyway?
Date: 17 Dec 1994 22:35:11 -0600
Organization: Configuration Management Svcs, Inc.
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References: <3cr8es$d4p@news.duke.edu> <MICHAELV.94Dec16205918@mindbender.headcandy.com>
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In article <MICHAELV.94Dec16205918@mindbender.headcandy.com>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:
>In article <3cr8es$d4p@news.duke.edu> vn1@acpub.duke.edu (Vedat Nommaz) writes:
>
>   What is FreeBSD? Is it Unix or X-windows, none?
>   I have absolutely No clue. Thanks
>
>It is a free variant of BSD unix.  Read the FAQ posted regularly in
>comp.os.386bsd.announce.
>

If you don't have the FAQ available in your news area, let me know and I
will mail you all 600K of it.

That's probably an exaggeration.  I think it's really closer to 500K.


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