Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:43:30 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: <Drbthe1st@aol.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: I have a question about freebsd Message-ID: <055601c0949d$993d94a0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <8a.2449962.27b8a276@aol.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Its "stand alone" in the sense that when its installed in a common or garden variety PC it will do as much as any other operating system if you are willing to persevere long enough. Whilst there are probably heaps of people using it in a standalone situation, the strength of FreeBSD is as an extremely stable server ..... I prefer other things for day to day desktop use. ----- Original Message ----- From: Drbthe1st@aol.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 12:20 PM Subject: I have a question about freebsd I know it is lame but I was wondering Is FreeBSD Desktop Edition a stand alone operating system or do you have to connect to a server to use it. If you could just briefly explain it I'd appreciate it. By the way, I have looked up lots of info on freebsd , but for some reason I'm in the dark on this question. From DRBTHE1ST@AOL.COM [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Its "stand alone" in the sense that when its installed in a common or garden variety PC it will do as much as any other operating system if you are willing to persevere long enough.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Whilst there are probably heaps of people using it in a standalone situation, the strength of FreeBSD is as an extremely stable server ..... I prefer other things for day to day desktop use.</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Drbthe1st@aol.com href="mailto:Drbthe1st@aol.com">Drbthe1st@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG href="mailto:freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG">freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 12, 2001 12:20 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> I have a question about freebsd</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>I know it is lame but I was wondering <BR><BR>Is FreeBSD Desktop Edition a stand alone operating system or do you have to <BR>connect to a server to use it. If you could just briefly explain it I'd <BR>appreciate it. <BR>By the way, I have looked up lots of info on freebsd , but for some reason <BR>I'm in the dark on this question. <BR><BR>From <A href="mailto:DRBTHE1ST@AOL.COM">DRBTHE1ST@AOL.COM</A></FONT> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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