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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Minimum requirements for FreeBSD?
Date: 4 Dec 1994 08:12:12 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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In article <DCHAPMAN.94Dec3092141@access.victoria.bc.ca>,
David Chapman <dchapman@access.victoria.bc.ca> wrote:
>Can anyone tell me, or point me to, the minimum hardware requirements
>for a FreeBSD system?  I looked thru the FAQs on ftp.cdrom.com and
>could not find this info.

386sx/16, 5MB of memory, and about 60MB of disk.

>Also, most of the documents I have read say that there is certain
>encryption technology that may not be exported from the US.

Yeah, it's stupid but true.

>However,
>the INSTALL file for NetBSD 1.0 indicates that such software may be
>exported to Canada.  Is this correct?  If so for NetBSD, what about
>FreeBSD?

The same law applies for all software, so IF it's legal for one it's
legal for the other.  (That is, unless certain distributors apply for
and receive a special 'munitions' export license from the govt.)

>Would this also hold true for the zcrypt* files used with Info-ZIP?

Yep.


Nate
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