From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 30 8: 5: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9C1114C9C for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 08:05:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA05959; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 01:21:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 08:21:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein 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? Yes, and no and perhaps. Ripped directly from the Homepage (http://www.freebsd.org/): What is FreeBSD? FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system for "PC-compatible" computers, developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. It is an operating system, however unlike win98 it actually seems to allow you to get work done, it's free and comes with even more free software allowing you to develop your own applications and servers free of charge and royalties. As far as affecting your win98 installation, I've heard that many FreeBSD users eventually nuke thier win98 partition (as did I a few years back) and use it for more important things, like swap space. Give it try, I suggest a bit more reading on the web site, or wander over to #freebsd on efnet, it gets a bit rowdy but you probably will get your questions answered. (after you've visited the web site) good luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message