From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 19:05:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA05259 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 19:05:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (root@jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA05201 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 19:04:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul4.u.washington.edu (root@saul4.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.2]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id TAA44006; Fri, 8 May 1998 19:04:55 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul4.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id TAA15421; Fri, 8 May 1998 19:04:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 19:03:27 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: Chase Paglee cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD Questions In-Reply-To: <35538C01.A21CCBF7@qis.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 May 1998, Chase Paglee wrote: >1. Why do you recommend not using 386sx. Is this just speed problem, >or is it stability problem? Dunno. >2. Does FreeBSD support Immation 120MB floppy drive? Dunno. >3. Is there any way to run FreeBSD from floppy? Yes. Search for PicoBSD on the website. >4. Can I load FreeBSD from memory, and then take out the FreeBSD >floppy and use other floppies? You can't just take out a floppy in unix. See PicoBSD >5. Do I have to have XWindows to run Netscape on FreeBSD? Yes. Just like you need Windows to run Netsape in DOS. >6. Which version of Netscape should I run on FreeBSD? 4.04 from the FreeBSD ports collection. >7. Do I have to have XWindows to run WordPerfect on FreeBSD? Yes. >8. Is there any charge if I use FreeBSD in a commercial application? No. This is the very cool thing about FreeBSD. >9. Suppose I have a special graphics card. Where could I find >someone to write a driver for it? Dunno. Check http://www.xfree86.org/ to see if it is supported. Also, you need no special support to run the command line interface. >10. Does FreeBSD support foreign characters (like Chinese characters)? Dunno for sure but I think so. Thank you, | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message