From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 4 00:56:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA14493 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 00:56:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.com [209.25.4.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA14478 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 00:56:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id HAA02033; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 07:56:21 GMT Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 00:56:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Nadav Eiron cc: Support , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hello In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Nadav Eiron wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Support wrote: > > I want to start up an ISP bussiness but i want to know if this software is > > good for that. Also i want to know if this is an operating system? is this > > FreeBSD is a UNIX-style OS. It is used by many ISPs world wide. Like any FreeBSD is not a "UNIX-style" OS, it *is* UNIX. Of the BSD variety. You (Nadav) know that but I just wanted to make it clear to the uninformed reader. Personally I don't think the learning curve is that steep either. With Unix I can read _The Unix Programming Environment_ by K & P * and basically be done with it. With NT I have to figure out how to twist their picture of "one person, one computer" into a working model. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 * YES there is continuing education, but once you have the basics it's pretty easy.