From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Mar 31 23:10:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA00767 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 23:10:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from safeconcept.utimaco.co.at (mail-gw.utimaco.co.at [195.96.28.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00756 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 23:10:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Michael.Schuster@utimaco.co.at) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by safeconcept.utimaco.co.at (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA20061; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 08:47:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ultra1.utimaco.co.at(10.0.0.32) by safeconcept via smap (V2.0) id xma020059; Wed, 1 Apr 98 08:47:39 +0200 Message-ID: <3521E810.7678BEA1@utimaco.co.at> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 09:09:04 +0200 From: Michael Schuster Organization: Utimaco Safe Concept GmbH. Linz Austria X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: veronicap@eliteeng.com, vpaz@pacbell.net CC: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD References: <3521E5AB.736@eliteeng.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Veronica Paz wrote: > I'm still not clear on what FreeBSD means. Is this a software that's > easily installed like other software? depends on your definition of "other software" :-) FreeBSD is an operating system - some people say "unix-like", I call it "unix". FreeBSD is NOT application software. For (much) more information, see http://www.freebsd.org/ or http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/ > Will it work on WIN NT? no, it will work instead of WinNT, and better and quite a bit more reliable and stable, and faster at that ... And it's not by Microsoft! > Thanks, > Veronica Paz -- Michael Schuster To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message