From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 2 23:01:09 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B6E106566B for ; Mon, 2 May 2011 23:01:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from louis_marrero@yahoo.com) Received: from nm29-vm0.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (nm29-vm0.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.91.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 712488FC16 for ; Mon, 2 May 2011 23:01:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.138.90.49] by nm29.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 May 2011 22:47:10 -0000 Received: from [98.138.84.41] by tm2.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 May 2011 22:47:10 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp109.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 May 2011 22:47:10 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1304376430; bh=+WgEZ8xvK7Kz/S/amAUzCGpbhtvhIjuPyMYzq7SZC5A=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Thread-Index:Content-Language; b=pdwpKtqok4uIIDOPPoSqhHU+7eSLpY6BPODwSLXnfS4UMP4nTv7a/ulgVCejEbx8uht7n9rlQHqwT9AA4U9nEgC5OXFSI6qk395DwuEUV2EiJSQd88rN/ALjMSAWSa5mzkNA5N55kVr52sgpf7QqFCrVMDluG3wliOHZTFLneq8= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 624416.27866.bm@smtp109.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Received: from LOU (louis_marrero@108.56.200.252 with login) by smtp109.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 02 May 2011 15:47:10 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: sOosuIWswBCoS_NvSolhd5yUo8f31GnFELI- X-YMail-OSG: g9XFnfEVM1nZJy9zA._eLaYDK19BYRe.xfOtsAV_Op5GRCd E90jBOQO7o4dRVvYQ1HAeh3vApfxDiVERWFPHH3GdsBcW00qLHFM6HQ5ZCIn ATmeX50i9zuX.SsCxsClYHRN.VouEEzwzsfs_UHxpXw9_zRY85FJmf4RNs7C xYt65E7.2TRwC80W1.B4HagG_U5Pd73LPuf7iCqoniBBcnbz3jEQCVbAOs0_ M8PiFj7E4DrucNQoQbn5cEhG.zN_ei.QckzCtff9ho2nsHPTUEvy66uMvAyf zXHcGaYsnWLN8ZgDcTNeQxb3mkMck9S0aYSBoe104H85GDbHLRpqcCMtBjP0 5ccqS7p152Vq.ygyw9.GV53E- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: "Louis Marrero" To: Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 18:47:11 -0400 Message-ID: <000001cc091a$e041f380$a0c5da80$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: AcwIMR2F8ba6dnKARkqUHmxdhM0jug== Content-Language: en-us Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: For My Edification X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 23:01:10 -0000 Gentlemen, I have a number of really dumb questions that I hope you might be able to shed some light on. Although I am familiar with basic computer operation, I've been trying to understand a very experienced programmer friend that mixes Linux/Unix terminology in his vocabulary under the assumption that everyone knows the language. Being familiar only with general knowledge on the Windows XP that I use daily, I've gone on the web to find out more information on some of the terms used by this programmer, such as "BSD", "shell terminal", "nc -u", etc. Since my friend knows that my computer is strictly MS Windows, when my friend writes down something like "In a shell terminal type nc -u 10.101.97.200 5555." it makes me wonder what I'm missing. Here are some questions that can help my understanding: 1. I know that Windows is an OS, and Linux/Unix as well as FreeBSD are other Operating System. My very basic question is this: Is it even possible to install a second OS, like FreeBSD on an existing Windows-based computer? 2. Is it possible to link my Windows laptop to a web server with Unix or FreeBSD and exercise Unix/Linux commands. If so, how is that done? I'd be grateful for any information. Louis Marrero