From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 29 18:17:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86FE337B401 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:17:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shipka.solar.com.br (shipka.solar.com.br [200.199.212.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D52E943E3B for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:17:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bbrummer@solar.com.br) Received: (qmail 19935 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2002 22:17:34 -0300 Received: from 200-181-93-049-bsace7011.dsl.telebrasilia.net.br (HELO compaq) (200.181.93.49) by shipka.solar.com.br with SMTP; 29 Sep 2002 22:17:34 -0300 Reply-To: From: "Bernardo M. Brummer" To: Subject: RE: questions-digest V5 #1647 Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 01:17:10 -0300 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:46:12 -0700 From: "C T" Subject: I need some help... To whom it may concern, My name is Craig and I am in the process of forming a non-profit organization that takes old computers (286's etc...), setting them up for email, word processing, internet browsing, spread sheets, and them giving them to people who can't afford computers. One of my obstacles is finding an OS package similar to MS-DOS, but doesn't cost money. Does FreeBSD distribute something simple that would operate on older machines? Thank you, Craig To do that in a 286 is possible (except for internet browsing). I used Coherent from Mark William Co. (doesn't exits anymore) before 386BSD came out, it uses UUCP for mailing and file interchange. It runs nicely in 286 with 1MB (holds up to 4 serial terms) but I don't think anyone would want to learn it for everyday use (microemacs, vi, mail, etc.). Older machines, with less than, say 4 or 8MB, could use a Freedos, with an old word processor, a spreadsheet and a term emulator, and would connect as dumb text terminals, into a FreeBSD server where pine and lynx (text apps) could be used to access the internet. Cheers, Bernardo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message