From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 21:31:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7042F37B422 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 21:31:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from craig-burgess@home.net) Received: from home.net ([24.0.178.21]) by femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010523043119.JFTE4180.femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.net>; Tue, 22 May 2001 21:31:19 -0700 Message-ID: <3B0B3E42.88FBEDFB@home.net> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 21:36:18 -0700 From: craig burgess X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bc Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: info References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill: first, i would point you to http://www.freebsd.org to find out about FreeBSD. It is an Operating System - the software which makes your computer into more than an expensive doorstop. It could be used instead of MS-Windows. A search engine is something else entirely and I suspect from what you've written that your greatest need is for "bandwidth." Consider a drinking straw and a garden hose -- your dial-up connection provides bandwidth like a drinking straw provides water -- not very much. A straw is for sipping. Cablemoden and DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) are consumer technology which provide bandwidth more like a garden hose. They cost in the neighborhood of US$50 per month for the service. If your concern is with the speed of your internet access and you are limited to dial-up speeds, changing operating systems will not make much difference. Fast internet access requires more bandwidth. craig > bc wrote: > > please respond at chilestrouble@yahoo.com. > Does bsd replace window's or serch engines like netscape, explorer? > I'm not great with computers but I'd like something a little faster > than what I'm getting now. I'm using netzero free, but about to sign > up for platinum. I was using AOL , but I find netzero just as fast. I > up'ed my ram to 320 an I notice a difference with net more than I did > AOL they have to much garbage with their browser. please let me know > I'm interested. I was reading the box today in CompUsa. But the clerk > there didn't know what BSD was any more than I do. I just thought it > to be like a different type of Window, or linux platforms. If it is > what makes it better or different And is it compatable with all search > engines. is there any limitations using it on the web! thanks bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message