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Date:      Fri, 9 Sep 2005 19:48:09 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Nathansm@aol.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: need more info
Message-ID:  <20050909174809.GA80014@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <ba.79c8ae54.305318c5@aol.com>
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On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:56:37PM -0400, Nathansm@aol.com wrote:

> What exactly is FreeBSD?=20

See the freeBSD homepage: http://www.freebsd.org/

> Can it be used by the computer beginner or do you =20
> need to be a very knowledgable computer user?

Some knowledge definitely comes in handy. For an absolute beginner it
can be quite a learning curve. Reed the FreeBSD Handbook, especially the
section about installation:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html

> Is it compatible with my computer?  It is a compaq presario 5000
> series with an AMD Duron 750MHz processor.

Probably yes. The processor should not be a problem, but other devices
like network- or graphics chip tend to vary in brand name computers, so
it's impossible to tell.

Roland
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