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Date:      Mon, 30 Aug 1999 10:41:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        Danny Tam <jaselen@sprint.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A Question...
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.990830103857.10304A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000701bef229$a7f22dc0$23896395@s9n2v5>

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On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Danny Tam wrote:

> I'm just wondering if you could exactly tell me what FREEBSD is? Is it
> an operating system like Win 98? If I install it, will it effect Windows
> 98 in any way?
>

FreeBSD is an open source Operating System based on 4.4 BSD. It is not
like Win 98.  It is a variant of Unix.  You can install both OSes on your
machine, each in their own partition of your hard disk. 

-Zhihui



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