From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 8 3:10:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.email.msn.com (cpimssmtpu01.email.msn.com [207.46.181.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB13F37B66C for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 03:10:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oemcomputer - 24.92.93.119 by email.msn.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 03:09:46 -0700 Message-ID: <000801c030ab$547ea260$775d5c18@midsouth.rr.com> From: "AKellerhouse" To: Subject: newbie stuff 8P Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 17:09:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C03081.6B225360" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C03081.6B225360 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi I hope your not to busy to help me with some very basic type = questions. =20 While on Napster I noticed someone uploading from me with a = ridiculousy FAST transfer rate. I asked him what his secret was and he = explained he had messed with his tcp/ip buffer size and that he ran his = cable modem through Free.BSD. He recomended I download it. So here I am = at the website. =20 I am not a computer beginner, but am definately not more than novice = and am confused by what excactly I use FreeBSD for. From what I gather = here it is an operating system (such as Windows 9x). Will installing = this remove my Windows 98, work with it, require me to manually boot = into it, act like the DOS prompt within Windows, or what? Is it strictly for Internet transactions? I dunno. Should I, in my ignorance, not mess with it? Everthing I've read says FreeBSD is unbeatable for its = price/stability/ease of use. I must be missing some very basic knowledge = because I am lost.=20 Sorry to bother you with such newbie type questions, but if you have = the time, please, send me a clue! ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C03081.6B225360 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi I hope your not to busy to help me = with some=20 very basic type questions.

While on Napster I = noticed=20 someone uploading from me with a ridiculousy FAST transfer rate. I asked = him=20 what his secret was and he explained he had messed with his tcp/ip = buffer size=20 and that he ran his cable modem through Free.BSD. He recomended I = download it.=20 So here I am at the website.

I am not a computer = beginner,=20 but am definately not more than novice and am confused by what excactly = I use=20 FreeBSD for. From what I gather here it is an operating system = (such as=20 Windows 9x). Will installing this remove my Windows 98, work with it, = require me=20 to manually boot into it, act like the DOS prompt within Windows, or=20 what?

Is it strictly for = Internet=20 transactions? I dunno.

Should I, in my = ignorance, not=20 mess with it?

Everthing I've read = says FreeBSD=20 is unbeatable for its price/stability/ease of use. I must be missing = some very=20 basic knowledge because I am lost.

Sorry to bother you = with such=20 newbie type questions, but if you have the time, please, send me a=20 clue!

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