Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:22:41 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: fmorales@reuna.cl, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NEW USER OF FREEBSD Message-ID: <19980813132241.D3228@cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <2FFC88B9.381B@reuna.cl>; from Francisco Morales Iraagorri on Thu, Jul 06, 1995 at 08:07:05PM -0500 References: <2FFC88B9.381B@reuna.cl>
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On Thu, 06 Jul 1995 at 20:07 SAT, Francisco Morales Iraagorri wrote: > > Hi, my name is Francisco (i speak spanish, so forgive my bad english) No problem. :) > 1.- What does the acronim BSD means? Berkeley Software Distribution. It was a research project of the University of California at Berkeley, and can be seen as one of the two primary strains of Unix. > 2.- Is the FREEBSD a project from GNU? Decidedly not. Though the full FreeBSD operating system includes some software licensed under the GNU GPL, the kernel itself has a more lenient licence. > 3.- Is FREEBSD so easy to install like Linux? Yes. More so than some Linux distributions. At least as easy as (say) Redhat. > 4.- Does FREEBSD have so good performance and security level like Linux >From experience I would say better, but then, I'm biased. ;-) > 5.- Does FREEBSD have releases in other languages like win95? Not sure what you mean. It's a complete operating system. > 6.- Does FREEBSD have a similar structure like Linux,i.e does it have > the same commands? Yes, though it differs in the details. FreeBSD is almost "pure" BSD, while Linux can be very System V'ish. > 7.- Does FREEBSD have a full documentation about > installing&configurating system like LINUX? Yes, see http://www.freebsd.org/ > 8.- Does FREEBSD versions for other machines like DEC,MAC,HP? Not yet. But it's in the pipeline. NetBSD (http://www.netbsd.org/), FreeBSD's close relative, already supports a number of architectures. -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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