From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 9 17:48:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B94D16A41F for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 17:48:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D689D43D5F for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 17:48:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j89HmAkk041212; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 19:48:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EB8CE6325; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 19:48:09 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 19:48:09 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Nathansm@aol.com Message-ID: <20050909174809.GA80014@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Nathansm@aol.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need more info X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:48:13 -0000 --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:56:37PM -0400, Nathansm@aol.com wrote: > What exactly is FreeBSD?=20 See the freeBSD homepage: http://www.freebsd.org/ > Can it be used by the computer beginner or do you =20 > need to be a very knowledgable computer user? Some knowledge definitely comes in handy. For an absolute beginner it can be quite a learning curve. Reed the FreeBSD Handbook, especially the section about installation: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html > Is it compatible with my computer? It is a compaq presario 5000 > series with an AMD Duron 750MHz processor. Probably yes. The processor should not be a problem, but other devices like network- or graphics chip tend to vary in brand name computers, so it's impossible to tell. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDIcrZEnfvsMMhpyURAgrKAJ46hqkB3470zsF/OnoXto7HYyEwmACggWY0 tDLxBdy3m9B7P8xbq23SdnY= =HPIy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu--