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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!vyzynz!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!agate!nickkral From: nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... Date: 8 May 1996 01:44:54 GMT Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley Lines: 40 Message-ID: <4mouan$cpb@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4mnsc5$6qo@sundial.sundial.net> <318FD68B.60AD12F6@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: america.cs.berkeley.edu In article <318FD68B.60AD12F6@lambert.org>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >] Linux can be found on a endless number of vendors CDs for a >] low as $10. > >Generally with a $39.95 book accompanying it... 8-). Linux CD-ROMs can be gotten for free. Check out the "Linux CD and Support Giveaway" at http://emile.math.ucsb.edu:8000/giveaway.html In addition, there are one or two complete Linux books online. Check out the Linux documentation project at http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/ >And you probably really meant to >say "saving me the agony of messing with an alpha-quality >IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drive". The driver works perfectly if your >vendor didn't violate the ATAPI specification, one way or the >other, or if you don't have one of the buggy (3 out of 5 of all >available cards) IDE controllers. Are you saying that FreeBSD doesn't work on 3 out of 5 IDE CD-ROMS? Ouch! Or perhaps I've misunderstood you... Has FreeBSD fixed their broken DOS FS support yet? Does FreeBSD have VFAT (Win 95) support yet? >Again, your choice to buy the hardware. That's not much consolation to a user who happens to have a non-working (under FreeBSD) CD-ROM drive that they can get easially working under Linux. *sigh* Take care, -- Nick Kralevich nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu