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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsrelay.netins.net!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 14:51:42 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3249A96E.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> References: <3246f8e0.1466924@news.telepac.pt> <324924E5.49B6@usoft.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Willem Wals wrote: > About a week ago I installed FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE and had a lot of > trouble getting it running. For instance the X enviroment was not > installed and I had to install it manually (tar -zxvf ; ln -s xyz That's not quite the installers fault - it's an option among the available distributions, can easily be installed by default and you evidently just missed seeing it. Also, the FreeBSD ports collection is now up to 547 ports. I don't know how many RedHat has, but I'd still say that's a heck of a lot of ported software! :) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project