From owner-freebsd-www Tue Aug 12 18:53:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA08687 for www-outgoing; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 18:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA08674 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 18:53:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA00371; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 18:53:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 18:53:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Yue xing Li cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Doubts and Questions In-Reply-To: <33E157A1.1F14B281@ucla.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Yue xing Li wrote: > I'm thinking of installing FreeBSD on my computer but some doubts > and questions remained in my mind. I want to order your CD version. > But does the package include Spice and other popular FREE UNIX > applications? Yes; ports for over 1000 popular applications are provided on the CD, and most of these are provided pre-compiled. > Can I download the newest version from your site with no > charge? Absolutely, see ftp.freebsd.org. > Will it be better than Linux? That depends a lot on you, but we think you'll find FreeBSD to be much more stable than Linux ever could dream to be :-) > Last of all, I want to install > it on my D: drive instead of C: which is occupied by Windows 95 > currently. Is is possible to do that? No problem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo