need more info

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:56:37PM -0400, Nathansm at aol.com wrote:

> What exactly is FreeBSD? 

See the freeBSD homepage: http://www.freebsd.org/

> Can it be used by the computer beginner or do you  
> need to be a very knowledgable computer user?

Some knowledge definitely comes in handy. For an absolute beginner it
can be quite a learning curve. Reed the FreeBSD Handbook, especially the
section about installation:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html

> Is it compatible with my computer?  It is a compaq presario 5000
> series with an AMD Duron 750MHz processor.

Probably yes. The processor should not be a problem, but other devices
like network- or graphics chip tend to vary in brand name computers, so
it's impossible to tell.

Roland
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