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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: BSD, the hard facts, in a short form. Message-ID: <Cx5nwA.y1@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <36nvn8$9b6@marlin.gulf.net> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 15:48:09 GMT Lines: 45 In article <36nvn8$9b6@marlin.gulf.net> bob@gulf.net (Robert V.) writes: >first, I am looking at getting FreeBSD 2.0 now... FreeBSD 2.0 is not yet released. Unless you're an experienced user, I would recommend either using FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 or waiting for the official 2.0 release. >1)Is it a real UNIX system, Yes. It's Berkeley unix. It's not System V. > i.e. will it run all UNIX program? What do you mean? No unix runs all unix programs. Do you mean binaries or source? >3)Does it run MSDOS programs like MS Windows (remember, windows is a dos > program)? Windows is not a dos program in any useful sense. It's an operating system that replaces dos. Work is in progress on wine, a Windows "emulator", that will run windows programs under X on BSD and Linux. >6)Does it support extended file names where spaces are valid characters? Yes. >7)Can it's X-Windows run REAL Xwindows programs that are on the same computer > without _ANY_ other computers being attached, Yes. > i.e. NO Tcp or any other networks running? TCP is "running" of course, just as it is on a standalone Sun or similar workstation. Programs can use TCP sockets to communicate within a single machine. It doesn't have to be connected to a network. -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk Ooooh! I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.