Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 19:54:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Richard Parker <richard@neptune.lu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: new user Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961011195222.232K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19961010223931.117f2b94@neptune.lu>
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On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Richard Parker wrote: > So then, is free bsd better than Linux ? That is a question for you to answer. Obviously, we're rather biased, being this IS the FreeBSD Support list...:-) > where can I get it from? I don't want to download it. You can get FreeBSD on CDROM from Walnut Creek CDROM, http://www.cdrom.com. > One further question. I would like to run it on PC, which currently runs > dos/windows. Can I run my windows apps under BSD ? If not can I keep the > windows system to use sometimes? And if I connect to the interenet with free > bsd and download files, can I "get at them" with windows (e.g. is they are > windows programs)? There is an emulator available for Windows 3.1 apps, but I don't know how well it performs or how compatible it is. DOS and UNIX can coexist on the same disk, given you have some unallocated space on the disk. You can use the FIPS utility to split off the free space from your DOS slice and make it into a FreeBSD slice. Or go the easy way and buy another disk. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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