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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!mindspring!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!unlisys!bolzen.in-berlin.de!news.all.de!luthien.in-berlin.de!wagner From: wagner@luthien.in-berlin.de Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: 'Holistic Computing Services' Message-ID: <E4Atus.AuF@luthien.in-berlin.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32E2A49F.60A9C4F2@yorku.ca> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 08:49:39 GMT Lines: 28 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:152334 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1905 Derek Browne (yu100087@yorku.ca) wrote: > Hmmm. I like the FreeBSD but installation was about 6million time > harder. I went through the installation about 50 times and I found that > if I entered the exact same information I never got the same results > twice. I am still not sure how I finally got it up and running! > FreeBSD (2.1.6) has more of the unix feel but I really haven't played > with it long enough yet to give an educated response. Suffice it to > say, make sure you can put aside a lot of time to install and have > nothing else on the machine. This may seem like unfair criticism but I > am not a complete dummy and it was a battle for me. I've never had major problems installing a FreeBSD release. I can't say this about other operating systems I had to install onto the same hardware (OS/2 and Windows NT). In my experience FreeBSD shows the fewest objections to coexistance with other OSs on one disk. Furthermore, it is by far the most stable and performant system of the mentioned three. I don't intend to enter the Linux-FreeBSD battle now :-) Olaf -- /\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ || Olaf Wagner | wagner@luthien.in-berlin.de (private) | || Sanderstrasse 13 | olaf@logware.de (work) | || 12047 Berlin | phone: 49 30 623 36 35 | || Germany / Deutschland | please don't call before 9 o'clock | \/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////