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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!news-m01.ny.us.ibm.net!usenet From: javier5@ibm.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBsd in the press (Inforworld article) Date: 14 Apr 1996 18:56:16 GMT Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4krhog$2ooq@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> Reply-To: javier5@ibm.net NNTP-Posting-Host: slip166-72-219-107.ny.us.ibm.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 In the 4-8-96 issue of infoworld there is an article about installation problems that occur in Windows95, Windows NT, and OS/2. After a brief description of why the problems occur the author of the article mentions how FreeBsd has a better approach than those other OSs in terms of how to handle device probing. "Ironically, one lesser-known OS provides the most Robust solution of all: Freebsd ......" "FreeBsd has an outline-structured visual configuration editor that allows you to define as much (or as little) of your hardware configuration as you wish before it starts probing." Infoworld 4-8-96 Help Desk-Brett Glass(brett_glass@infoworld.com) Page 38 I was very pleased to see this reference to FreeBsd. I do still think that the FreeBsd installation can be improved specially the Dialup configuration for us non Unix-gurus. :)