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On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 08:36:19PM +0100, Chris Owen wrote:
> I am really confused about the concept of FreeBSD. 
>I know it is for server use, 

Not neccessarily. FreeBSD makes an excellent desktop aswell. :)

>which is what I want, but wht do I download to get it working. I am running an AMD Athlon system NOT 64 bit. Please help me. Do you have an idiots guide?
> 

A good place to start is the handbook(http://www.freebsd.org/handbook), which deals with installation aswell as configuration.