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Subject: Re: Installation Problems
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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Date: 1 Mar 1994 17:46:53 GMT
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In article <2kv2cv$po5@news.u.washington.edu>,
Mark Tamola <mola@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>Or, you could just skip NetBSD altogether, and install FreeBSD, which is almost
>the same thing, and has a much, much easier installation process (it figures
>all the numbers out for ya).  I prefer NetBSD, but hey, use whichever works
>for you, as NetBSD is a lot more technical.

Not!  There is no *more* overall technical merit in NetBSD over FreeBSD
unless you want to argue which has more technical merit, but that's just
flame-bait.  Both have technical strengths and weaknesses.


Nate
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