Hey i am fan of every open source software.Recently my friend got PC_BSD 4.0
from his elder brother.I was able to get it,but i need an updated version.
i heard about its latest version 7.1 galileo edition.but i was dissapointed that they do not post for free.they ask for downloading or buy a bundle.Please help let me get that version for free.
my system configuration
intel core2duo.
acer aspire series

The install ISOs seem to be freely available from pcbsd.org. Are you trying to get them to ship you a free CD (as I've heard Ubuntu does)?

Pal But i have dial up connection,can't download it!!!!!!!

I'm also on dialup,..and downloading a Linux distro or BSD ISO is out-of-the-question for me. Even Ubuntu has stopped sending out the free CDs by Shipit. What I usually do, is (for a small fee) use one of the reputable on-line Linux CD stores. Most of the more well-known distros have their own stores (such as Debian, Vector, Slackware, Puppy Linux,..etc. etc.). Then there are others. I have dealt successfully with:
http://www.linuxcdshop.com/
http://www.linuxcd.org/
http://on-disk.com/
http://www.frozentech.com/
http://www.electrodisc.com/
They ask for a small fee, plus shipping costs. They aren't really charging you anything at all for the free (FOSS) software. What they are charging for, is the cost of burning a CD for you,..and shipping it to you. If you are on dialup,..it might be the only way to go.

I'm on dial-up and have downloaded 7.1 using a bit-torrent client. It takes awhile, but its the only way to insure a good download at the speed of my connection.

That's good to know. I may try that myself (when I get the time). For other distros & BSD, since I already have a PCBSD 7.1 DVD.
By-the-way, kendo..how did you get dialup to work in PCBSD 7.1?
I tried,..but couldn't find any way to set up a dialup connection.

I assume you use KDE???? Then use KPPP.

..that seemed to be the problem. KPPP in PCBSD 7.1 just doesn't seem to be "complete". Here's a thread from the PCBSD forum that is describing the same situation:
http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.ph...=14662&p=83920
...I'll give it another try, but I've not been able to get KPPP to connect to the internet in PCBSD 7.1. (BTW, I have an external Robotics modem that works well in many other Linux distros). It's not one of those "winmodems" by any means. I am using it right now in Debian. Maybe PCBSD 8.0 will be different. I'm going to try it, when it comes out.

For the CD: ask a friend to help.

For the PPP problem: search the freebsd network mailing lists, other mailing lists, and use google.com/bsd