From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 11 23:49:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA29590 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 May 1996 23:49:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA29585 for ; Sat, 11 May 1996 23:49:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA15735; Sat, 11 May 1996 23:54:13 -0700 Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 23:54:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Shawn Modarresi cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19960512005850.00673a94@bayarea.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 11 May 1996, Shawn Modarresi wrote: > My name is shawn. I am thinking of startink my own isp in the summer. I am > wondering what this freebsd is. Is it a software? Is it like the bberkely > systems bsdi? How much does it cost if anything? Thanks. FreeBSD is similar to BSDi in that it is based on Berkeley UNIX, but the similarity ends there. FreeBSD is free; it can be downloaded from the Internet or purchased on CDROM. Check out http://www.freebsd.org for more information. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major