Date: Fri, 12 Dec 97 20:59:59 -0400 From: "Francisco Reyes" <reyesf@super.zippo.com> To: "freebsd-doc@freebsd.org" <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org>, "Kwok Wah" <eg_kwx@stu.ust.hk> Subject: Re: do i need to remove win95? Message-ID: <199712130200.SAA21159@super.zippo.com>
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Thanks for your interest in FreeBSD I am going to try to answer your question and to give you some pointers. The first thing I would like to point out is that this list is for the documentation project of FreeBSD. For questions about FreeBSD, like the one you just made, you would get better response from the questions mailing list: questions@freebsd.org. to subscribe to the questions list sent an email to majordomo@freebsd.org with the text "subscribe freebsd-questions" or if you prefer one daily message "subscribe freebsd-questions-digest". To see a list of all the lists managed by that host send email to that same email address (majordomo...) with the text "lists" (or list I can't remember). >Does FreeBSD a "unix emulator running on MS-DOS or a real operating system >that really boots up my machine? It is an operating system just like DOS and Windows 95 are. It is a variant of Unix. You can run it on the same computer as other operating systems given you have a program called a boot manager. You will not however be able to run FreeBSD on top of Dos or Windows. It is run instead of those. >I wonder if it is just like the linux... In the sense that Linux is also a variant of Unix, yes it is like Linux, other than that they have many differences. >that maybe some games running on ms-dos cannot run on FreeBSD... Probably most DOS games will not run on FreeBSD (specially the really fancy ones made for win95). FreeBSD, just like any operating system, has programs which are compiled to run specifically under it and has some emulation to run "some" programs from other operating systems. A good place for you to find a lot more about FreeBSD is http://www.freebsd.org In there you want to particularly look at the Docs section (you can use the bar at the top) and check out the Handbook. It will answer many of your questions. Take care and let us know if you have further questions, but please do send them to questions@freebsd.org
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