From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 12 17:57:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA13388 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:57:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA13352 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:57:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 26761 invoked by uid 1003); 13 Aug 1998 00:57:12 -0000 Message-ID: <19980813025712.A25325@rucus.ru.ac.za> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 02:57:12 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: fmorales@reuna.cl, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NEW USER OF FREEBSD References: <2FFC88B9.381B@reuna.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <2FFC88B9.381B@reuna.cl>; from Francisco Morales Iraagorri on Thu, Jul 06, 1995 at 08:07:05PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu 1995-07-06 (20:07), Francisco Morales Iraagorri wrote: > 1.- What does the acronim BSD means? Berkeley Systems Distribution. > 2.- Is the FREEBSD a project from GNU? Nope. > 3.- Is FREEBSD so easy to install like Linux? Easier. (well, in my opinion) > 4.- Does FREEBSD have so good performance and security level like Linux > ? Better. > 5.- Does FREEBSD have releases in other languages like win95? I don't know what you're asking here, really. It doesn't run under Win95. > 6.- Does FREEBSD have a similar structure like Linux,i.e does it have > the same commands? Yes. > 7.- Does FREEBSD have a full documentation about > installing&configurating system like LINUX? Yes, included with the install, and also via the web. > 8.- Does FREEBSD versions for other machines like DEC,MAC,HP? x86 architecture only, for the most part. There are Alpha and SPARC porting projects, though. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message