From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 11 14:28:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB5E37B401 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:28:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a180.otenet.gr [212.205.215.180]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f9BLSRs28089; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 00:28:28 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9BKsXk15132; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 23:54:33 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 23:54:32 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: "Nasrudin, Wali M" , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix Account Message-ID: <20011011235432.D13476@hades.hell.gr> References: <004201c15210$32c4d7c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004201c15210$32c4d7c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-URL: http://labs.gr/~charon/ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Nasrudin, Wali M wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was wondering how I could use FreeBSD without having it as an OS > > on my laptop. For instance I would like to telnet and work with a > > Unix account. > > you can also get a free shell account here: > > http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/os/#bsd Glad that someone brought up Testdrive before I did. Without being affiliated to Compaq in any way, and fearing that I might sound a bit off topic for -questions (this is why I moved this thread to -chat), I feel that I have to add my two cents here. I was thinking of trying out OpenBSD and NetBSD about a year or so ago. Instead of installing them and going through the tedious process of configuring them to my preferences, I thought of trying out Compaq's testdrive. Very impressive, and I did find all I was looking for (mostly the documentation that comes with the base-system). What was very nice of them though is that they did ask what my opinion was, if I had found Testdrive useful, what I wanted to use it for in the first place, and if I thought that trying it out had met my requirements. This was done a few months after I had stopped using my account there, in an email message polite in tone, that did *not* include any kind of Compaq advertisements. No spam, no nothing. Very nice of them :-) I usually do not reply to messases that have even the slightest traces of spam. This time though I took the time to fill the standard questions they had posted, and write a nice little summary of what, how, when and why I had used their Testdrive program. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message