From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 1 21:03:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA16978 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:03:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line15.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA16967 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:02:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00239; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:01:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:01:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Brian Hasden cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3200C566.1D83@afn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Brian Hasden wrote: > What is FreeBSD? From reading about your web site I was under the idea > that it can make my computer into a "http://www.whatever.com" thing. Is > that true? If so does the software work on standard computers e.g. > Packard Bell 486 DX2/66? As long as it isn't too nonstandard and you have an Internet connection, you most certainly can. FreeBSD is a freely available implementation of BSD 4.4, a Unix-style operating system for the i386 architecture. It works on most 386, 486, and above computers. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major