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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: FreeBSD install [was Re: Comparing anything to NetBSD]
In-Reply-To: abs@cs.sun.ac.za's message of 13 Sep 1993 08: 55:35 GMT
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>When FreeBSD-1.0-GAMMA arrived, I installed it. I found that the installation
>was as easy as NetBSD, but a lot more informative of what was going on. 
>Unfortantly it is not as modular as NetBSD, where the kernel source is separate

Kind words - and the whole install has just been *significantly*
reworked, based on the many useful bug reports we received on the
first set.  See recent announcement about availability on freefall.

				Jordan
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Jordan Hubbard  jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie