From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 5 07:22:01 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA24840 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 07:22:01 -0800 Received: from lupine.nsi.nasa.gov (lupine.nsi.nasa.gov [198.116.2.100]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA24802 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 07:20:37 -0800 Received: (from mnewell@localhost) by lupine.nsi.nasa.gov (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA13486; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 10:18:01 -0500 Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 10:17:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael C. Newell" To: raul@scs.leeds.ac.uk cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <4496.9502031905@csparc10.scs.leeds.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 3 Feb 1995 raul@scs.leeds.ac.uk wrote: > What is FreeBSD? A cheap Unix for PC? Well, it's not a cheap Unix; it's a _free_ Unix clone for 386/486/pentium based systems, derived from the BSD 4.4Lite distribution. It's available for anonymos FTP from several sites as well as on CD-ROM from several vendors (Walnut Creek hosts the "home" site, so I tend to buy their CD-ROM version :{) Information can be obtained from "http://www.freebsd.org". > Does it have Lucid Common Lisp or other Common Lisp? And Emacs? And SML? > And GCC? And TeX? And Perl? Yes? I want it! Definately yes on gcc, TeX, perl, as well as pounds of other stuff (complete X, various mail/news readers, etc.) It's a VERY complete system. > How much do i have to pay? Conditions? Guarantee? Do you have it in CD-ROM? > Installation? Paying depends on how you get it; CD-ROMs are generally in the $20+ region depending on what you get on the ROM (Walnut Creek info can be obtained at "http://www.cdrom.com".) Terms and conditions are specified in the Web page noted earlier. No guarantees - this is free software; but to be honest I've found it to be VERY reliable. Installation instructions are also included on the Web page. > PS: Would it be too much to ask for TCP/IP? A full TCP/IP implementation, including multicast, SLIP, and PPP support, is included. Thanks, Mike +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ |Mike Newell | The opinions expressed herein are | |NASA Science Internet Network Systems | my own, and do not necessarily | |Sterling Software, Inc. | reflect those of the NSI program, | |MNewell@nsipo.nasa.gov | Sterling Software, NASA, or anyone | |+1-202-434-8954 | else. | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+