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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... Date: 12 May 1996 10:38:20 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4n4f2s$6l5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4mnsc5$6qo@sundial.sundial.net> <4mr1pk$cdi@dyson.iquest.net> <4n0dhd$cff@agate.berkeley.edu> <3194622D.41C67EA6@ami-chan.res.cmu.edu> <4n2obr$f51@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) wrote: > With FreeBSD, the recommended thing to do is to do a complete reinstall > from scratch. There is no feature in FreeBSD to do easy upgrades. Except the "U)pgrade" menu item from the main menu of the installer, you'd like to say??? Stop posting things where you've been replacing knowledge by religion! Btw., the weak point of all your argumentation chain about where everything for your Linux examples can be found is that it's exclusively ``http://...'', ``ftp://...'' etc. This implies to me that it cannot be found bundled alltogether in a consistent state on a CD-ROM -- but that's what the posting you've been following up to was praising on the FreeBSD distribution! (Not all the world's Internet. Not all the Internet participiants have a bandwidth available that allows them to suck several Megabytes per day.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)