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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!bronze.lcs.mit.edu!not-for-mail From: stowaway@bronze.lcs.mit.edu (Jef Pearlman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Some Basic Questions Date: 10 Oct 1993 22:06:40 -0400 Organization: MIT LCS guest machine Lines: 27 Message-ID: <29af3g$7q9@bronze.lcs.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bronze.ai.mit.edu Excuse me, but I am getting a new computer soon. I was wondering if anyone out there could answer a couple questions about the BSD series... 1) What are the base differences between 386BSD, Net-BSD, and the rest of the BSD series in features and requirements? 2) Is Xfree86 the only X-Windows system for BSD? What are it's features, requirements, and limitations? 3) If I wanted to have a dual boot system (BSD and another OS) how would I go about doing that? Are there any utilities for such? Does it matter whether it is 2 partitions of one drive, 2 drives, and IDE or SCSI? 4) What video cards are currently supported by BSD and/or Xfree? 5) Is it possible to use UUCP and other net-direct utilities through serial or modem if I do not have an ethernet card/direct net connection? 6) If I do number 5, can I write programs that would bind a port such as telnet servers or ftp servers, etc. and test them by telnetting to my own computer despite not having a net card/connection? Thank you, stowaway@bronze.lcs.mit.edu p.s. Unfortunately, more questions will probably be forthcoming. ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "I can't think of anything really witty | Jef Pearlman | | to say here..." | stowaway@bronze.lcs.mit.edu | | -Jef Pearlman, 09/14/93 | [18.30.0.254] | -------------------------------------------------------------------------