From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 11:12:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC0AB16A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:12:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FBE443D31 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:12:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:11:24 -0600 Message-ID: <40195AB3.7020500@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:10:43 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031124 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tntglaser@comcast.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Jan 2004 19:11:25.0359 (UTC) FILETIME=[B09833F0:01C3E69B] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Free BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:12:09 -0000 T Glaser wrote: >This website leads me to believe that this is an OS software package? I >don't know for sure though. What did I stumble across here? What are you >offering for free? Not real clear here on the website. If this is an OS do >you have any screen shots of what it looks like or is it command line? > >Tim > > > OS being open source? Yes. Package? Nope. An "OS OS"... recently, FreeBSD celebrated it's tenth anniversary. I'm curious, on the site, what's not real clear? Perhaps you were expecting a hard sell? This is a community effort, and the site's not designed to show off the product like some sites do, IMHO. It's designed to help you use the Operating System...and to give information for people who want to investigate it. Are you familiar with Linux? FreeBSD is comparable, older, probably more stable, and really better, in some folks opinions. Matt Fuller's rant at: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php has recently been "slashdotted" and, well, we'll have to see what comes up as a result. Please note that I don't think anyone in FBSD land is "crusading" or starting a "jihad" against Linux ... many of us use or have used one of the many Linux distros available as well.... And, HTH: take a look at www.bsdforums.org. There's a sticky thread in "FreeBSD General" called "Post your screenshots of the BSD's..." Should give you a better idea. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. --------------------------------------------------------- I've heard that "familiarity breeds contempt"; and I'm pretty familiar with M$ Windows(r)....