From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 30 08:30:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA08752 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:30:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cerberus.partsnow.com (gatekeeper.partsnow.com [207.155.26.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA08743 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:30:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bin@localhost) by cerberus.partsnow.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id SAA24092; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 18:30:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cerberus.partsnow.com: bin set sender to using -f Received: from pcconsole(192.168.100.254) by cerberus.partsnow.com via smap (V2.0) id xma024089; Tue, 29 Jul 97 18:30:13 -0700 Message-ID: <33DF5DB8.61DB@PartsNow.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:28:56 -0700 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: don@PartsNow.com Organization: Soligen, Incorporated X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wayne CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsd References: <33DEE9DF.D9386E0A@greenapple.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk http://www.cdrom.com is Walnut Creek CDROM, and they have CD's of FreeBSD which contain both the OS (freely copyable...one copy 4 many machines, LEGALLY!) and also manymanymany other programs which will replace all the windows junk you wasted your money on. Be aware that the tradeoff is that you need to have the patience to learn to use the new software, but with 17 machines, you will be able to leverage your experience. This list and any book on Berkeley UNIX will be your guide, as will all the other UNIX aficiandos out here (that's us!) -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo