From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Nov 2 11:26:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD2515067 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:26:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11ijZb-000KBs-00; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 19:26:27 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA60561; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 19:26:27 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 19:26:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Carsten Holst Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, Heiko Recktenwald Subject: Re: A few questions In-Reply-To: <199911022020370760.008E76F5@mail.stofanet.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Since you have been so nice, and haven't installed FreeBSD yet, we'll tell you... ;-) Ports are software that has been 'ported' to freeBSD from other OS's, usually Linux or Unix. FreeBSD has a wonderful method of keeping tabs on them all and easily installing them. On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Carsten Holst wrote: >On my way out, I just have one more, totally newbie, thing to ask. What's a port collection?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message