Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 23:54:32 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: "Nasrudin, Wali M" <wali.m.nasrudin@lmco.com>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix Account Message-ID: <20011011235432.D13476@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <004201c15210$32c4d7c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: <B094D0875C68D311915500508B0EA6D509D84F65@emss01m08.ems.lmco.com> <004201c15210$32c4d7c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > Nasrudin, Wali M <wali.m.nasrudin@lmco.com> 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
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