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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!Frankfurt.Germany.EU.net!Stuttgart.Germany.EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 12 Mar 1997 16:04:49 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5g6k71$5v9@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net> <5d7spf$8n6@web.nmti.com> <5d9p55$t1h@news.ox.ac.uk> <5dadfr$cnu@web.nmti.com> <n4stf5.tq2.ln@zen> <E6sIEF.1qE@truffula.sj.ca.us> <3324DD43.7BD4304B@anu.edu.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:88305 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2800 Nathan Hand <Nathan.Hand@anu.edu.au> wrote: > When I was dumping ISC I was looking at FreeBSD (maybe NetBSD?) and > Linux. The FreeBSD installation was 40 x 3.5" floppies and I didn't > even have a 3.5" drive! But it was available on 5.25" as well. We have just dropped the support for 1.2 MB floppy installations, since almost nobody was still using it, and the additional space on the boot floppy was required now (remember, FreeBSD uses a single boot floppy for everything). 1.2 MB floppy installations have been supported for more than three years. > The Linux distribution was only 10 x 5.25" > floppies, and that included X. My choice was instantaneous. You forget to mention that the major part of these 40 floppies were for the (optional) source distribution. The bindist was probably about the same size as Linux by that time. So it seems you didn't look very closely before you made your decision. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j