From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 19 20:26:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mls.gtonet.net (mls.gtonet.net [216.112.90.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D7837B401 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 20:26:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from pld (pld.gtonet.net [216.112.90.200]) by mls.gtonet.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f1K4QEb53342 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 20:26:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oldfart@gtonet.net) Reply-To: From: "oldfart@gtonet" To: Subject: RE: freebsd OS Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 20:26:13 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20010220041151.26386.qmail@hackermail.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of cache wolf > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 8:12 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: freebsd OS > > > Hello, > I was chatting in an IRC channel and people were talking about > how BSD kills Linux and stuff. I would like to try it out, and > would download it, but have a dial-up modem (which would take forever)... > FreeBSD is an OS not a hitman. It doesn't "kill" anything, although kill is a command. Actually, people do FTP installs over modems all the time it doesnt take all that long if you dont select "All" for the install option. Just make the 2 floppies and boot them and walk through the menus. Read http://www.freebsd.org > I was wondering if would be possible to send me a copy of > FreeBSD? I would be very grateful... HAHAHA > > If you are able to, my address is: > > Marcellus Easley > 904 Tyrell Drive > Austell, Georgia 30106 > Not smart, you shouldn't give out your address over the net like that :P OF To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message