From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 21 22:19:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA06771 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 22:19:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA06766 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 22:19:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id XAA10788; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 23:23:05 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 23:23:05 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199707220523.XAA10788@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: "Janusz E. Starkel" CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd In-Reply-To: <199707152330.TAA16525@max.cybermax.net> References: <199707152330.TAA16525@max.cybermax.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Janusz E. Starkel writes: > Hi. I am tied of windows and looking for alternative OS. You've come to the right place. > I am around DOS for last 7 years and have a good knowledge of it. > Unix it is something new to me. Does one have to be a programer to > run Unix?. No. FreeBSD has many, many applications available for it which you can install without little or no programming skill. It makes a great workstation or network server. For a list of applications you can load for free via FTP or CD-ROM, see: http://FreeBSD.org/applications.html > I understand that C language it is used to develop this OS. Do I > have to learn C?. I did long time ago and do not remember much of it. No. If you need to do some custom programming, C is one choice, but there are numerous others, ranging from C++ and Java, to tcl, perl, python, expect, etc. For a more complete listing of computer languages that come with FreeBSD, see: http://FreeBSD.org/where.htm#apps If you mostly need UNIX applications, you will probably find what you need already available for FreeBSD. The URLs above will show you much of what is available; the rest of the FreeBSD.org web site will fill you in completely. Welcome! -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com