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On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Oren Gelb wrote:

> Hi!
> 	I am hoping you could explain to me exactly what FreeBSD does.  It's not
> exactly clear from your web-site.  I might be interested.

You missed the Handbook and FAQ, I guess :)

FreeBSD is a freely available UNIX-style operating system for i386 PCs.
Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ at question 1.2.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major