Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 14:53:48 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: i-flopit@microsoft.com (Florent Pitoun) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is freeBSD? Message-ID: <199602131353.OAA29755@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: lul-02-msg960213083344MTP[01.52.00]000000d6-385 from "Florent Pitoun" at Feb 13, 96 09:32:44 am
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As Florent Pitoun wrote: > > - Is it a linux-like OS? No, it's a unix-like OS. Linux is also a unix-like OS, however. :-) > - Does it provide a graphical interface like X-windows? As an add-on package, and it's exactly the same as Linux has (XFree86). > - What kind of configuration does it need to run well? This depends on what you wanna do with it. I'm running it on my 386sx/16 notebook within only 5 MB of RAM, though the previous 120 MB disk was a bit small for my needs, and has been replaced by a 250 MB one. This is obviously not a racing car, and starting X11 on it takes some 5 minutes. ;-) But i'm also running it at work on an i586/100, 32 MB RAM, 2.8 GB disks, DAT tape, CD recorder, 1280x1024 16-bit depth X11 display, etc. I can record a CD-R while running full multiuser (and this is real *multi*, i.e. my colleagues do also use the machine for several services). Walnut Creek CDROM is operating the world's heaviest-loaded Internet server (wcarchive.cdrom.com) with FreeBSD, too. They have 256 MB RAM, an i686 CPU, dozens of Gigabytes disk, and allow for 600 simultaneous FTP users plus WWW users... I think you got the picture? > - How much does it cost? Your Internet costs to suck several hundred Megabytes across your IP connection, or alternatively US$ 49 for the CDROM from Walnut Creek (info@cdrom.com). Perhaps you could even get the CD cheaper at a local vendor. Take care to get the most recent version (2.1 by now). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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