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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: John Dyson <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Transfer FREEBSD setup to BSD Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 23:11:34 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 47 Message-ID: <32606BF6.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> References: <326040A2.2865@dznet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01b1 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Doney Jimenez wrote: > > Greetings > I wonder if I could setup(customize) FREEBSD and then be able to > transfer the setup to BSD. Can I? > What I want is to test FREEBSD and then buy BSD if I like it, but I > don't want to loose my setup time. > Please pardon me but I don't know anything about UNIX or BSD. > If you are trying out FreeBSD then using your results to choose BSDI, then you are comparing one OS and using it as a try-out of an fairly different one. FreeBSD performs differently from BSDI. However, if you are checking it out to see if it is a flavor that you like, then BSDI and FreeBSD are similar. If you find that you like FreeBSD, there is absolutely no obligation to pay for it in any way. In fact, the FreeBSD team takes only contributions, mostly in the form of software help and sometimes patience on the part of it's user base. Support is available from several sources for a price, but very good (and many times adequate) support is available through the mailing lists for free (of course there are no guarantees when you don't pay for the support.) :-). FreeBSD is a generously copyrighted piece of software originally from UCB and other sources and the FreeBSD team (with the help of Walnut Creek and others) continue to support, enhance and add to. We are happy for people to use the code productively, and ask for nothing (except for compliance with the liberal software copyright terms) in return. If you want a system that is easy to install, you can get a copy of the OS on CDROM from Walnut Creek for a very low price. (In fact, it is desirable for most people to get a copy of the CDROM, but many people are satisfied to support themselves totally through the net.) Of course, you can obtain a copy of the system for free across the net, but with net connections mostly being at 28.8K, that can be tedious (again many people do it that way though.) The CDROM can be purchased from many sources, including Walnut Creek CDROM for somewhere around $40 perhaps less. (I don't know the exact price.) If you buy the CDROM from Walnut Creek, you will indirectly be supporting FreeBSD development, since WC has been very helpful and supportive to the project. John