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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:43:07 -0800
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From: Tim Baird <tim@storm.digital-rain.com>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Beginner Needs NFO
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A basic setup is fairly simple.  Your Q is a bit vague though...Did you
want FBSD partition to co-exist with a W98 partition?  


From my experience, if you really to have fun with FBSD in a networked
environment, you should have separate FBSD and W98 boxes.  This will
allow you to explore all sorts of features.  E.G. Samba is an execllent
package to install on your FBSD system so that it may provide seamless
file/printer sharing with your W98 system.


Also, you may want to explore the FBSD system's
HTTP/FTP/SMTP/POP/Telnet/RealAudio/X-windows/.........need I say 
more...


I have used both FBSD and Linux.  FBSD has given me the most stable
performance in a wide variety of loads.  I have had uptimes in the order
of 12 months. (try that on a Microsquish system).




At 09:07 PM 3/23/99 -0800, you wrote: 

>>>>

<excerpt><smaller>I am a beginner in the world of UNIX. I didn't want
linux, so my friend suggested FreeBSD because it could run on a computer
like mine 

:Pentium 333 -64MB RAM -2G HD

</smaller>  

<smaller>I wanted to know, how large is FreeBSD, will it cause problems
with win98? can aveerage computer user (knows programming, different
OSes, some unix commands,) be able to use it? Pleease enlighten me.

</smaller>

</excerpt><<<<<<<<





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