From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 13 02:50:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA07223 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 02:50:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from zwei.siemens.at (zwei.siemens.at [193.81.246.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA07215 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 02:50:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lada@ws6303.gud.siemens.at) Received: from ws6303-f (root@firix [10.1.143.100]) by zwei.siemens.at with ESMTP id LAA29781; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:49:19 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ws6423.gud.siemens.at (ws6423-f) by ws6303-f with ESMTP (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA121356124; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:48:44 +0200 Received: by ws6423.gud.siemens.at (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA10942; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:47:30 +0200 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:47:30 +0200 From: lada@ws6303.gud.siemens.at (marino.ladavac@siemens.at) Message-Id: <199710130947.LAA10942@ws6423.gud.siemens.at> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jason@best-service.com Subject: Re: FreeSBD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Md5: FkubtED/n1RwmWHpA6mrAQ== Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 11 20:40:28 MET 1997 > Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 13:01:46 -0500 > From: Jason Ballard > Mime-Version: 1.0 > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: FreeSBD > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > This is a stupid question, is your service to promote free UNIX > accounts, and do you give them out? > [this is begging for it :] In effect, yes. You just need to download/get_a_CD of FreeBSD, load it onto your PC, boot to it, and presto: you have as many free UNIX accounts as you wish :) Seriously, FreeBSD is an operating system, a UNIX clone derived from U.C. Berkeley 4.4BSD-Lite2 distribution. It is not a FreeNet clone. Even if you do install FreeBSD (or any other OS for that matter) you still need an ISP of sorts to get an actual access to Internet (but you already know that :) /Marino