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- # Walnut Creek CDROM Basic Web Page Form
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- ------------------------------------------------------------ BASIC INFORMATION
- CATEGORY = OS
- DISC_TITLE = The Complete FreeBSD
- SKEW = bsdcomp.bk
- HEAD_LINE = Everything you ever wanted to know about how to get your computer up and running FreeBSD. Does not include CDs.
- PRICE = $29.95
- SUBSCRIBE =
- BBS_READY =
- MONTH = 06
- YEAR = 1996
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- ------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION
- FreeBSD is a full, professional quality UNIX operating system. FreeBSD
- includes:
-
- <UL>
- <LI>Simple CDROM installation
- <LI>Easy switching between multiple operating systems.
- <LI>Rock-stable performance.
- <LI>Complete development environment.
- </UL>
-
- FreeBSD is based on Berkeley 4.4 BSD, developed by the University
- of California at Berkeley, and its contributors. FreeBSD comes with
- complete development environment with GNU v2.6.3 C and C++ compilers and
- GDB debugger. It also comes with packages such as PERL, TCL, scheme, logo,
- forth, basic, ICON and GNU emacs 19.29. For printing you get TeX 3.14,
- ghostscript, Hylafax and AFM fonts. The provided bash, csh, zsh and tcsh
- shells give you a rich choice of operating environments. FreeBSD supports
- ISO 9660 and RockRidge format CDs.
-
- Walnut Creek CDROM relies exclusively on FreeBSD for our 80 Gigabyte, 1250
- user ftp and www machine at ftp.cdrom.com. You'll get network support
- including:
-
- <UL>
- <LI>World-Wide-Web servers.
- <LI>Berkeley-style TCP/IP networking services (telnet, ftp, etc).
- <LI>Industry standard NFS, NIS and AMD servers with PPP and SLIP support make networking a breeze!
- <LI>Full USENET News and mail reading software (nntp, trn, elm, pop, pine, mh).
- </UL>
-
- FreeBSD comes with the industry standard X Window system (X11R6)
- for the PC, XFree86 3.1.2. You also get a rich set of ready-to-run X
- utilities such as fvwm window manager, TCL/Tk, Xaw3d, xjpeg, etc. The
- system also comes with complete source code. FreeBSD provides a tightly
- integrated build system that lets you recompile the entire source tree with
- one command.
-
- This book helps you take your first steps with FreeBSD, from
- installing the system to getting to know the environment. You'll read about
- detailed descriptions of the installation process, including how to share
- disks between FreeBSD and other operating systems. You'll also learn to
- install and configure your X Window System, get to know FreeBSD, and
- reconfigure your FreeBSD kernel.
-
- Requirements: Standard ISA, EISA, VL, or PCI bus based PC (386sx to
- Pentium), 8 MB RAM. 60 MB disk space for a binary-only system and 340 MB
- for development
- system.
-
- "If you want stable networking or a powerful development
- environment, FreeBSD is the operating system for you."
-