From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 19:25:33 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE80116A41F for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:25:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lgv@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (mx.freeshell.ORG [192.94.73.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8127F13C447 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:25:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lgv@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (lgv@sverige.freeshell.org [192.94.73.4]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l55JDM0C015741; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:13:22 GMT Received: (from lgv@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.1/8.12.8/Submit) id l55JDLMc026534; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:13:21 GMT Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:13:21 +0000 From: Luis Garcia-Vega To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Message-ID: <20070605191321.GA8475@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <4664E501.3060108@cox.net> <20070605181523.GT1356@nexus.in-nomine.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070605181523.GT1356@nexus.in-nomine.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:25:33 -0000 Wow. I admire the civility of this tread, I was just going to post a long sigh and a link to Eric Raymond's "how to ask questions" essay: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/smart-questions.html ~lgv On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 08:15:23PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > Dear Miss/Mrs Brown, > > -On [20070605 20:03], Mary Brown (eeyoremjb@cox.net) wrote: > > CAN NOT SEEM TO DOWNLOAD THIS FREE BSD, WHY, IS'NT FREE? > > Please see http://www.freebsd.org/where.html for instructions on how to > download and install. > > Just to make it perfectly clear: FreeBSD is an operating system like Windows > or Mac OS X. It is *not* a program you run under/on Windows or Mac OS X. > > Kind regards, > -- lgv@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org