Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 17:23:33 -0400 From: Dan Flemming <danflemming@mac.com> To: Lorena <lorena007@home.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! I have some questions Message-ID: <39834B55.E179E3B5@mac.com> References: <39834688.DE8B8F21@home.com>
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Lorena wrote: > > I read alot about FreeBSD and I've heard only great things about it. I > know that Yahoo.com uses FreeBSD. I would like to use it for developing > my web site but I have a great deal of questions because there are > compatibility issues. > > Can it be installed on a Compaq PC that has 60 GB? Generally speaking, probably. Compaq produces computers that are known to have compatibility issues, however. > Can I partition the hard disk to have two OS. Win 98 and Free BSD? > Or FreeBSD and Red Hat Linux? Yes. If you want Windows, though, it's best to install it first. You can have all three if you want, though - Linux and BSD happily coexist. > If it's not compatible with Compaq, then can you recommend a PC > that it's compatible with. The most compatible computers, for everything, Windows, BSD, Linux, all the operating systems, are usually the generic ones. The name brands customize the computers they sell, and consequently make it harder for the OS programmers to keep up. The exception, of course, is Apple, but that's because it's the same people designing the hardware and coding the OS. > My tech friend says that you can have FreeBSD on the servers and LInux > Red Hat on the computer used to develop the site so that we can use all > available free Linux software. What do you think? This is quite possible. Incidentally, Red Hat isn't the only kind of Linux; there are other Linuxes out there. My LAN has a Windows 95 computer, an iMac and a gateway computer running FreeBSD, all happily working together. > I want to be able to use Macromedia's Flash, Generator products etc. > Can it be used with Free BSD? I am not sure what you mean. I don't know if Macromedia's products will run on FreeBSD. (Anybody?) However, if you're just using BSD as a server, then of course files created with their products can be uploaded to the server, available for use in websites. > Is Free BSD ok with with Microsoft Explorer and Netscape browsers? Several varieties of Netscape, as well as Lynx, run on FreeBSD. IE has not been ported to it. However, if you're running a web server on FreeBSD, then it'll send documents to any visitors, regardless of which browser they have chosen. Lots of people visit Yahoo! using IE, completely oblivious to the operating system it uses. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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