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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1504 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:44:56 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!destroyer!news.itd.umich.edu!spumco.css.itd.umich.edu!pauls From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Stuff Date: 18 Feb 1993 03:02:33 GMT Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services Lines: 26 Message-ID: <1luu89$av2@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> References: <CGD.93Feb17000858@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <C2Ly26.F1z.2@cs.cmu.edu> <1993Feb17.213603.27673@samba.oit.unc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: spumco.css.itd.umich.edu In article <1993Feb17.213603.27673@samba.oit.unc.edu> David.Ross@launchpad.unc.edu (David Ross) writes: > Hiya. I'm getting a PC soon, and I would like to run some sort of >unix. The problem is, I'm not really sure if 386bsd would be right for >me. I'm not even sure about anything about it. Is there some general >text file somewhere telling me all the general stuff about it? ftp INSTALL.NOTES from wuarchive.wustl.edu /mirrors4/386bsd/386bsd-0.1 > (ie: cost, Nothing. >if it can do X, Yes, XFree86 1.2 is the package that people are using now. >if it requires that you not use Windows, etc.) Microsoft Windoze? MS-Windoze requires the MS-DOS operating system, and 386BSD is a different operating system. You can still maintain a DOS partition on your drive, so you can keep your DOS side alive if you want, but you can't run MS-Windoze from within 386BSD. You can run X-Windows, though (see above). Paul Southworth pauls@umich.edu