Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA00721; Fri, 1 Dec 95 15:50:54 EST Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA05010; Fri, 1 Dec 95 15:49:50 EST Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA07806 ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 08:35:29 -0800 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA07487 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 08:31:16 -0800 Received: from dub-img-6.compuserve.com (dub-img-6.compuserve.com [198.4.9.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA07476 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 08:31:10 -0800 Received: by dub-img-6.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id LAA07671; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 11:30:39 -0500 Date: 01 Dec 95 11:26:27 EST From: Michael Driver <100304.1120@compuserve.com> To: FreeBSD Subject: Interest in FreeBSD Message-Id: <951201162626_100304.1120_EHV32-2@CompuServe.COM> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hi, I've just read an article in Byte (Dec 95) by Jordan Hubbard regarding FreeBSD. I find this very interesting and would like to keep tabs on the development of future versions. I am a C programmer and interested in expanding my horizons and skills, shortly I will be purchasing a new PC and have been thinking about installing a unix OS on my old 486 25Mhz. I have a 240Mb IDE HDD with 4Mb RAM. Is this sufficient to install FreeBSD; what is the disk space requirements of it. Also how does Linux compare with FreeBSD. I would be interested in finding out about your future development plans and if there are any projects that I may be able to get involved with. I would be grateful for any information you can send to me. Thanks Mike