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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Freebsd or Slackware Linux ?
Date: 16 Feb 1997 20:52:04 GMT
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tzs@halcyon.com (Tim Smith) wrote:

> >I'm not disappointed about *BSD's hardware support. It runs on
> >every 'standard' PC (i.e. if you don't use *rather* exotic hardware).
> 
> IDE CD-ROM is rather exotic hardware!?

No, that's why you can use it with FreeBSD 2.2. :-)  Remember,
FreeBSD 2.1.x is technologically seen a more than one year old
system.

-- 
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. ;-)