From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 30 7:56: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7326014E43 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 07:56:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (cs1-gw.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.171.72]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA09959; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 10:54:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 10:41:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: Danny Tam Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A Question... In-Reply-To: <000701bef229$a7f22dc0$23896395@s9n2v5> 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 Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Danny Tam wrote: > I'm just wondering if you could exactly tell me what FREEBSD is? Is it > an operating system like Win 98? If I install it, will it effect Windows > 98 in any way? > FreeBSD is an open source Operating System based on 4.4 BSD. It is not like Win 98. It is a variant of Unix. You can install both OSes on your machine, each in their own partition of your hard disk. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message