From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Dec 22 06:53:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA27027 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 06:53:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uhura.concentric.net (uhura.concentric.net [206.173.119.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA27000 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 06:53:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mlduke@newman.concentric.net) Received: from marconi.concentric.net (marconi [206.173.119.71]) by uhura.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/12/15 5.12)) id JAA07628; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 09:53:39 -0500 (EST) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from ts001d29.mer-id.concentric.net (ts001d29.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.41]) by marconi.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id JAA10286; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 09:53:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 07:53:52 -0700 (MST) From: ML Duke X-Sender: mlduke@concentric.net To: David cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie In-Reply-To: <000701be2da4$cb4d9ba0$1955a7cf@dont-worry-> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, David wrote: > Can I Download and Install FreeBSD and Run it on my Windows98 System, or will it cause problems, If not I would love to Install it and learn to use it. > Thank You In a word. No. The only "operating system" that runs on another operating system I can think of, just off hand, is windows, which essentially runs on dos. FreeBSD is a true, powerful and highly sophisticated operating system which allows the integrated operation of "programs" or "applications" or "binaries" such as XWindows which in turn allows the operation of graphical interface applications such as Netscape. ML Duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message