From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 8 3:49:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.intercom.es (relay.intercom.es [212.66.160.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F149D37B66C for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 03:49:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lix.intercom.es (root@lix.intercom.es [212.66.160.2]) by relay.intercom.es (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA10698; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 23:17:47 +0100 Received: from intercom.es (iv2-13.intercom.es [212.66.169.13]) by lix.intercom.es (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA15164; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 12:54:34 +0100 Received: (from megarcia@localhost) by intercom.es (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e98AkqP00688; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 12:46:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from megarcia) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 12:46:52 +0200 From: Manuel Enrique Garcia Cuesta To: AKellerhouse Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie stuff 8P Message-ID: <20001008124652.A314@ilex.kicelo.org> Mail-Followup-To: AKellerhouse , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000801c030ab$547ea260$775d5c18@midsouth.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <000801c030ab$547ea260$775d5c18@midsouth.rr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please keep your lines around 70 characters long, it's a pain to deal with lines longer than that. === AKellerhouse escribia (Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:09:57PM -0500): > I am not a computer beginner, but am definately not more > than novice and am confused by what excactly I use FreeBSD > for. From what I gather here it is an operating system (such > as Windows 9x). Will installing this remove my Windows 98, > work with it, require me to manually boot into it, act like > the DOS prompt within Windows, or what? You can install it along with other systems in a single PC, but obviously you will not be able to use both at a time. As for what FreeBSD can be used for please read on. > Is it strictly for Internet transactions? I dunno. > Should I, in my ignorance, not mess with it? Ignorance is a good reason not to do things, unless you are willing to learn. To learn FreeBSD you just need a couple eyeballs and a brain behind them. I'd advise you to start reading through what you find in http://www.freebsd.org > Everthing I've read says FreeBSD is unbeatable for its > price/stability/ease of use. I must be missing some very basic > knowledge because I am lost. There's more to life than Microsoft ? :) > Sorry to bother you with such newbie type questions, but > if you have the time, please, send me a clue! Read the docs. Manuel García To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message