From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 24 19:01:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA06697 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 19:01:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from u1.farm.idt.net (root@u1.farm.idt.net [169.132.8.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA06676 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 19:01:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ray-s (ppp-11.ts-1.pro.idt.net [169.132.225.11]) by u1.farm.idt.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA23559 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 22:01:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3400F440.658A7225@idt.net> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 21:56:01 -0500 From: Ray Campbell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Starting up with FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hey everybody... I just read the entire web page for FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org) and was just wondering a few things. 1) How much space does one need for the OS, including mainly the developement tools, (C/C++ compiler, and the editors...) 2) Does anyone have a dial-up script out there for SLIP/PPP users such as myself? I'd like to be able to dial my ISP from inside FreeBSD (is this possible) 3) I plan on using the FreeBSD OS for MUD (Multi User Dungeon) developement...Is there any special settings I need for FreeBSD to include in certain (the PICO editor, grep, and the GNU Compiler) Or are these Standard? 4) I also noticed that there was something called X Windows, is this another actuall OS that you can run from inside FreeBSD in order to see graphics, or is it just sorta there to help lynx out a bit? I'm pretty new with FreeBSD, but I see the potential is definatley there for it to be a great OS for myself, I hope that someone can help me out with my questions Thanks... --Ray