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From: ug631@freenet.Victoria.BC.CA (Richard Morris)
Subject: FreeBSD?
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Reply-To: ug631@freenet.Victoria.BC.CA (Richard Morris)
Organization: The Victoria Freenet Association (VIFA), Victoria, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 02:54:35 GMT
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  Hello, I came across the FreeBSD operating system just a few minutes ago
and I was wondering if someone could tell me what it is exactly?  I know it
is a UNIX based OS but could someone give me a little bit more information?
For example, is FreeBSD shareware/public domain/commercial/etc?  Can you run
the whole OS from a disk or does it need to be installed on the hard drive?
What are it's minimum memory requirement?  These are types of questions that
I have.  If you do respond, could you please respond via email as I do not
visit this conference to often.  Thank you in advance.

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