Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 22:01:44 -0400 (EDT) From: drifter@stratos.net To: fmorales@reuna.cl, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NEW USER OF FREEBSD Message-ID: <199808140201.WAA00882@somniac.org> In-Reply-To: <19980813132241.D3228@cityip.co.za>; from Johann Visagie on Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 01:22:41PM %2B0200 References: <2FFC88B9.381B@reuna.cl> <19980813132241.D3228@cityip.co.za>
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On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 01:22:41PM +0200, Johann Visagie wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Jul 1995 at 20:07 SAT, Francisco Morales Iraagorri wrote:
> >
> > Hi, my name is Francisco (i speak spanish, so forgive my bad english)
>
> No problem. :)
"No problema," you mean :) (Sorry, I'm worse at Spanish than he is
at English, and I haven't had a chance to practice it since high school.)
>
> > 1.- What does the acronim BSD means?
>
> Berkeley Software Distribution. It was a research project of the University
> of California at Berkeley, and can be seen as one of the two primary strains
> of Unix.
>
> > 2.- Is the FREEBSD a project from GNU?
>
> Decidedly not. Though the full FreeBSD operating system includes some
> software licensed under the GNU GPL, the kernel itself has a more lenient
> licence.
>
> > 3.- Is FREEBSD so easy to install like Linux?
>
> Yes. More so than some Linux distributions. At least as easy as (say)
> Redhat.
>
> > 4.- Does FREEBSD have so good performance and security level like Linux
>
> >From experience I would say better, but then, I'm biased. ;-)
>
> > 5.- Does FREEBSD have releases in other languages like win95?
>
> Not sure what you mean. It's a complete operating system.
>
I'm not exactly sure why people are so confused here, I thought
the question was fairly clear.
"Does FREEBSD have releases in other languages -- like Win95
has releases in other languages?"
not
"Does FREEBSD have releases that run under other languages,
er, Operating Systems, like Win95"
He was asking if FreeBSD was distributed with support for other languages,
like FreeBSD Spanish, or FreeBSD Dutch -- probably so that the installation
procedure, system messages, etc, would be in a different language.
I don't believe so, though I've heard of a documentation project
in Spanish. You might want to check out http://www.freebsd.org. In
any case, FreeBSD does allow you to configure your console for support
for different languages (foreign character sets and keyboards)...
> > 6.- Does FREEBSD have a similar structure like Linux,i.e does it have
> > the same commands?
>
> Yes, though it differs in the details. FreeBSD is almost "pure" BSD, while
> Linux can be very System V'ish.
>
> > 7.- Does FREEBSD have a full documentation about
> > installing&configurating system like LINUX?
>
> Yes, see http://www.freebsd.org/
You forgot to mention Greg Lehey's book :)
_The Complete FreeBSD_ -- comes with the distribution if
you order from Walnut Creek CD-ROM. You can also find it at some bookstores
like Border's, though I don't know where they'd be sold from abroad. (Of
course, it's in English ...)
>
> > 8.- Does FREEBSD versions for other machines like DEC,MAC,HP?
>
> Not yet. But it's in the pipeline. NetBSD (http://www.netbsd.org/),
> FreeBSD's close relative, already supports a number of architectures.
>
> -- V
>
> Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878
>
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