Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 19:49:36 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: sas29@vivanet.com (Ali Shah) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perhaps a dumb question Message-ID: <199603290349.TAA07209@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <315B567F.2543@vivanet.com> from "Ali Shah" at Mar 28, 96 10:18:23 pm
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Ali Shah wrote: > > I am kind of new to all these new operating systems and languages! > I was looking around at LINUX info and also VISUAL BASIC...I ended > up at your FREE-BSD web site. What is FREE-BSD? It this a LINUX type > environment? Is is a UNIX type environment? Finally, will it run under FreeBSD is 4.4BSD for the Intel architecture and the PC platform. BSD is Berkeley Software Distribution. Berkeley got a copy of Unix from AT&T. Made improvements, like the C-shell, the vi editor and TCP/IP networking (the protocols that run the Internet) and made the code freely redistributable to any one that had a license from AT&T. Since that time, FreeBSD has replaced all portions of the code that AT&T claimed as theirs (requiring an AT&T license). Now all the code is available to you in either source or pre-compiled form. FreeBSD supports the X Window graphical enviroment andr over 350 add-on software packages. All of this is Free! The easiest way to get it ALL, is to buy the cdrom from Walnut Creek. or download it from www.freebsd.org. > Win 95 without major problems?!?1 These might be dumb questions..but I > just wanted some info.. No. FreeBSD is an operating system. You could boot either FreeBSD or Windows 95 but not run FreeBSD under Windows 95. > > Thanks! > > - Ali Shah >
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