From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 4 20:59:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.3/8.7.3) id UAA13928 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 20:59:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA13923 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 20:59:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA06649; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 20:59:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 20:59:23 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: "Raul E. Aguilar" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FREE BSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Raul E. Aguilar wrote: > I m interested in making my PC a server so I can start a small business Its a > windows95 pentium machine and has all kinds of good stuff. How can I get your > free BSD software on a cdrom or disk. I would appreciate you sending me info. Eleven out of ten users of FreeBSD favor the Walnut Creek distribution. Info on Walnut Creek can be found on their website at http://www.cdrom./com. > ALSO if your machine is a server is there a way to give it a domain name. > like with your software instead of accessing my machine at > > http://123.456.789.10/whatever/stuf.htm > > could I dial it at > > http://www.mypcserver.com/whatever/stuf.htm??????? Certainly, but you would have to register mypcserver.com with the InterNIC first. If you're not up for the $100 investment that entails, take a look at http://www.ml.org -- you can register mypcserver.ml.org with them for free. That is how I got my domain name. It's not a top-level, but it works. > anyways any help you can give me is very much appreciated. > You're welcome. Ben The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.