Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 21:29:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: webmaster@vets.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd Compatibility Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960730212520.371C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960730122138.006895e4@nextel.net>
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On Tue, 30 Jul 1996 webmaster@vets.com wrote: > I want to find out if the following will work with FreeBSD? > > I currently have a Digital Starion 932 120mhz Pentium with 16 meg, > a Gold Star 540(?) and a Toshiba 4x CD-Rom. Also a Cardinal 28.8 External > Fax/Voice modem. Don't know what the Goldstar is, but everything else should be OK barring any screwy hardware. > I will upgrade this to a cyrix 133mhz chip and 40 keg. 40 keg, eh? Rig that machine up for one _long_ party...:) > Please let me know also what would be the difference between this and Linux. FreeBSD is BSD-based, Linux is sort-of System V based. FreeBSD has one distribution; Linux has a few million. Most other opinions will be slanted. Check out the mail archives at http://www.freebsd.org and see what others say. > At the tender age of 53 I am having to learn unix, FreeBSD and Linux were > recommended for me to use at home for learning and also just a very O/S.I > have a copy on a CD-ROM that says Free BSD 1..1 Release is this still any good? 1.1-RELEASE???? REALLY? That would be quite the collector's item! I'm sure that some of the core team would be very interested in buying that piece of history off of you if it really was 1.1-R. The most current version is 2.1.5-RELEASE, and CDs from Walnut Creek should be available shortly. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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