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From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Linux vs. BSD?!
Date: 23 Feb 1995 19:23:16 GMT
Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany
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In article <3i83js$avl@ivory.lm.com> peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger) writes:
>NetBSD Cons:
>------------
>o	Actively hostile towards other OS's on the same disk.

Wrong.

>  The 
>	installation program is a crawling horror from the sewers
>	of hell.

True.


Once I had managed to install NetBSD, there was no hostility to other
OSes whatsoever.  I am running DOS, OS/2 Warp, and NetBSD 1.0 -- all
coexisting and being started by the OS/2 boot manager.
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