From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 24 11:02:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15401 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:02:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15385 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:02:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA02178; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 12:01:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 12:01:23 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor To: "Roger A. Lowe" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are you? In-Reply-To: <000701bd6fa1$bd3c37e0$e18514d1@rlowepe> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/ALTERNATIVE; BOUNDARY="----=_NextPart_000_0004_01BD6F67.0F73BDC0" Content-ID: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BD6F67.0F73BDC0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=iso-8859-1 Content-ID: On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Roger A. Lowe wrote: > You are a volunteer organization that is maintaining and developing a > comprehensive form of Unix. Am I right so far? Yes - the FreeBSD group is a bunch of volunteers working to build a stable, powerful 4.4 BSD based free operating system. > Next, I gather that at least in your opinion, > FreeBSD Unix is more stable, and more flexible than MSDOS, Windows etc. Most definitely. Huge web servers (like Yahoo!, the Internet Movie Database, and Walnut Creek) use FreeBSD. It's far more stable than Windows. Uptimes have been posted of more than a year wo/ rebooting. My work machine has been up 21 days wo/ rebooting, and I only rebooted then after updating the operating system. > Am I still on target? Finally, am I to understand that FreeBSD is > compatible with any intel cpu compatible computer, and with the existing > internet, WWW or similar computer interconnectivity systems? There are certain hardware limitations, although most things are supported. For instance, WinModems are NOT supported (due to a Windows specific driver). > Maybe we do not have to be dependent on Microsoft after all. No, we sure don't! ********************************************************* Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BD6F67.0F73BDC0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message